Area served Worldwide Website Official website Type of business Private | Products Riseup Black Founded 1999 | |
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Riseup is a volunteer-run collective providing secure email account, email list, VPN, online chat, and other online services; the organization was launched by activists in Seattle in 1999.
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Its mission is to support liberatory social change via fighting social control and mass surveillance through distribution of secure tools. It lists its purpose as "... aid[ing] in the creation of a free society, a world with freedom from want and freedom of expression, a world without oppression or hierarchy, where power is shared equally."
As of 2013, they feature 6 million subscribers spread across 14,000 lists. Their projects have included the StopWatching.Us petition against global surveillance disclosures revealed by Edward Snowden.
In January 2015 the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) criticized the arrests of anarchists in Spain which were reported to have been partially attributed to the 'extreme security measures' of using Riseup.
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Riseup provides products to facilitate secure communications, including use of strong encryption, anonmyizing services, and minimal data retention, aimed at individuals and non-profit and activist groups. Riseup's two most popular features are secure email and mailing list management services.
The email service is available through IMAP, POP3, and a web or shell interface. The web interface is a variant of Roundcube.
7.2 million users are subscribed to lists hosted on Riseup's network, as of November 2015.
Controversies
Mid November 2016 an unexplained stealth error appeared in their canary page, and they failed to respond to requests to update the canary, leading some to believe the collective has become the target of a gag order denying them their right to comment publicly. On February 16, 2017, Riseup collective revealed that their failure to update their canary was in result from two sealed warrants from the FBI, which made it impossible to legally update their canary. The two sealed warrants concerned a public contact of an International Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack extortion ring and an account using Ransomware to extort people financially. The decision to release user information has been widely criticized in the hacker community. Their canary has since been updated.