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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Aug 31

    Today, we are officially launching the Tor Project Membership Program, a new way for nonprofit and private sector organizations to financially support our work. 🎉

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  2. Retweeted
    Sep 27

    “The introduction of a roving drone security camera inside your own home potentially upends the very idea of home as a private place.”

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  3. Retweeted
    Sep 25

    "We must do better than subjecting our students to surveillance and violations of their privacy."

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  4. Retweeted
    23 hours ago

    The organisation has been compelled to let go of staff in India and pause all its ongoing campaign and research work. This is the latest in the incessant witch-hunt of human rights organizations by the Government of India over unfounded and motivated allegations.

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  5. Sep 28

    Last month our new Board Director talked about the Walking Onions project during the USENIX Security conference. The video is now available, and you can learn more about this ongoing research on the Tor network scalability and performance:

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  6. Retweeted
    Sep 26

    Introducing the privacy focused phone operating system from ! , , CalyxVPN, SeedVault encrypted backup, microG, appstore & Aurora appstore, VPN hotspot, out of the box ! Now supporting Pixel 4a & Mi A2 🤘

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  7. Retweeted
    Sep 28

    ⭐️1 day⭐️ left to provide feedback on 1.6.0 updates before the translation period starts! ⭐️3 days⭐️ left to update translation and review of 's Tor Browser 10! More project info:

    Looking for a way to support some your favorite projects this month? We have upcoming translation deadlines for and and we need your help! Learn more about both projects and how to contribute to translation on our wiki:
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  8. Retweeted
    Sep 25

    For people who might need occasional anonymity and privacy when accessing websites, Tor Browser provides a quick and easy way to use the Tor network. Review our guide on Tor for Windows to get set up.

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  9. Sep 25

    "We must do better than subjecting our students to surveillance and violations of their privacy."

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  10. Retweeted
    Sep 25

    In cutting off funding to the , Trump and have stopped vital technical assistance to pro-democracy groups in Belarus, Hong Kong and Iran, which had helped activists evade state surveillance and sidestep internet censorship.

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  11. Sep 25

    "That begs the question: Why should you trust a VPN that promises to protect your privacy more than your internet provider? The answer is that you can't, and you shouldn't."

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  12. Sep 25

    If you're using Tor Browser on Windows and having issues watching YouTube videos after the last update, we're working on a fix. You can wait for a new Tor Browser update, or you can change one line configuration to fix. Check the update on the blog post:

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  13. Retweeted
    Sep 23

    NEW: We've published a research report of OTF Fellow Babatunde Okunoye titled, "Censored continent: understanding the use of tools during Information controls in Africa: Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda, and Zimbabwe as case studies."

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  14. Sep 23

    跟踪，监视和审查在网上广泛存在。 下载 Tor 浏览器，来保护cookie、指纹识别以及您能被网上辨认的大多数方式：

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  15. Retweeted
    Sep 23

    Looking for a way to support some your favorite projects this month? We have upcoming translation deadlines for and and we need your help! Learn more about both projects and how to contribute to translation on our wiki:

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  16. Sep 23

    👇👇👇👇

    🟢 Time to update: Tor Browser 10.0 is out now. Tor Browser 10 ships with Firefox 78.3.0esr, updates NoScript to 11.0.44, and Tor to 0.4.4.5. This release includes important security updates to Firefox.
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  17. Sep 23

    This research in the field helped us to inform the user research work on improving Tor Browser as an essential circumvention tool. You can read this and all other important findings here:

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  18. Sep 23

    Messaging apps like Signal and Telegram, which were unknown to government censors and were not blocked, served as alternative messaging channels when more popular apps like Facebook and WhatsApp were blocked.

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  19. Sep 23

    All interviewees used circumvention tools on mobile and desktop devices, although a majority (23) reported mostly using the tools on mobile devices. Civil society and community recommendation played an important role in mobilizing people to use circumvention tools:

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  20. Sep 23

    Among the 33 interviewees in Cameroon, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, about half (17) had 2 or more circumvention tools on their devices. Those who had more than one tool installed on their devices switched from one tool to another depending on which particular tool worked best.

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  21. Sep 23

    The research was conducted between 2019-2020, and answers three questions: 1) What are the tools used during Internet censorship events in Africa? 2) How and why are they used? 3) What are the usability challenges encountered by users of these tools?

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