• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
5th of July Foundation

5th of July Foundation

Security - Privacy - Liberty

  • About
  • Blog
  • Projects
  • Tools

Blog

Celebrate 5 July with some new privacy tools

July 5, 2022 by admin

Ten years ago today, on the 5 July 2012, the United Nations adopted a resolution on “the promotion, protection, and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet”.

The resolution was commendably simple in stating that “rights that people have offline must also be protected online”.

We couldn’t agree more, and that’s why we named our foundation after that momentous date in internet history.

Read more in Swedish: Tio år sedan FN:s 5 juli-resolution om mänskliga rättigheter på internet

The 5th of July Foundation is here to provide concrete tools that help citizens globally to enjoy the online rights to security, privacy, and liberty that the United Nations has officially granted them.

Here are some new and updated tools and features to honour the day:



Flashdrop for encrypted image and video sharing

Flashdrop lets you upload (or “drop”) a file and share the link to it. The file selfdestructs in 12 hours, although we may tweak this time or add more options. Currently you can paste files up to 50 MB. Try it out at:

https://share.5july.net

\

New Flashbox for disposable emails

We have updated our popular tool for receiving disposable emails. Check out the beta of the new Flashbox here:

https://flashbox.5july.net

The old Flashbox (at flashbox.5july.org, if you have to) will remain online while the new Flashbox is in beta.

L

United Kingdom added to Integrity VPN

Users of Integrity VPN can now choose to get an IP address in the UK, in addition to Sweden and the USA. Just download a new Wireguard configuration for the country of your choice:

https://wg.5july.net

Note that Integrity VPN is a paid service that some Internet providers offer their customers – you can’t buy Integrity VPN directly from us.

That’s all for now, let’s celebrate the 5th of July by enjoying our online human rights to the fullest!

Filed Under: Admin

5July signs the Open Letter Against Apple’s Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology

August 28, 2021 by admin

As of today, the 5th of July Foundation is one of the signatories of the open “privacy letter” to Apple.

The letter is a result of Apple’s plans to give an American organisation access to content stored on your own phone or other Apple device.

In signing the letter, the 5th of July Foundation asks that:

  1. Apple Inc.’s deployment of its proposed content monitoring technology is halted immediately.
  2. Apple Inc. issue a statement reaffirming their commitment to end-to-end encryption and to user privacy.

Sign the letter at Appleprivacyletter.com (image from the same site).

Filed Under: Activism

Jabber update

February 26, 2021 by admin

If you have experienced problem with our Jabber server, they should be fixed now.

The background is that we installed a new SSL certificate on 20 February 2021, but we missed attaching our signature correctly. Today, 26 February 2021, we fixed this problem.

Depending on your platform and settings, your XMPP (Jabber) client might have warned you about problems during this period.

There are no signs of attack attempts. This was simply a miss in our routines, for which we apologise.

Thank you for alerting us about this!

Filed Under: Admin

5july ❤️ EFF

December 6, 2020 by admin

The 5th of July Foundation has donated 500 USD to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which will be doubled by fund donors to 1,000 USD in their Power Up campaign. We also became official members.

EFF is an American nonprofit organisation “defending civil liberties in the digital world”.

Today is the last day to have your donation doubled – go ahead and support digital liberty!

Filed Under: Activism

5july advises the EU on new internet legislation

September 8, 2020 by admin

The European Commission is currently crafting a new legal framework for the internet. The so called Digital Services Act will replace the old Ecommerce directive from the year 2000.

As part of this process, the Commission has initiated a public consultation, in which the 5th of July Foundation has participated. The public consultation ends today.

The 5th of July Foundation has summarised its advice to the EU in three main points:

  1. No censorship prior to publication
  2. No upload filters – especially not for opinions
  3. Mere Conduit for platforms (without curation)

You can read our full statement in this PDF (2 pages).

Read more in Swedish on our news blog Femte juli:

  • 5 juli-stiftelsen om EU:s planer för nätet: Nej till censur och uppladdningsfilter – värna plattformarnas budbärarimmunitet

Filed Under: Activism

5 juli-stiftelsen söker tekniker!

September 3, 2020 by admin

5 juli-stiftelsen söker en tekniker/utvecklare som vill utveckla och underhålla tjänster som ger ökad säkerhet, integritet och frihet för internetanvändare i hela världen, vilket är 5 juli-stiftelsens syfte.

Vår huvudtjänst är Integrity VPN, men vi driver också en jabberserver, en anonym eposttjänst och en tornod på den tekniska sidan, samt nyhetsbloggen Femte juli.

Vi vill nu lansera fler tjänster, och det är där du kommer in. Som en del av vårt utvecklarteam kommer du att ha stort inflytande över vilka tjänster vi sjösätter hur de ska sättas upp. Du kommer bli en del av en liten grupp av dedikerade tekniker som brinner för ett fritt internet. Vi jobbar på distans och fakturerar från egen firma.

Vi har inga formella krav på programspråk och liknande (det kan variera beroende på projekt). Skicka iväg ett mejl och berätta vad du kan och vad du vill göra, och framförallt, varför du vill bli en del av 5 juli-stiftelsens arbete för ett fritt internet!

Mejla (gärna krypterat, fingerprint: 1DC3 5A97 1854 5C89 1B0B 7B8F BD0E 885C 4C4F 7E4D) till karl AT 5july.org.

Filed Under: Swedish

  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 5
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Femte juli – news in Swedish

Femte juli-loggan

Följ Femte juli för de senaste nätnyheterna!

Femtejuli.se

Podcast

Our weekly podcast on internet issues is mostly in Swedish.

5 juli-podden

Recent Posts

  • Celebrate 5 July with some new privacy tools
  • 5July signs the Open Letter Against Apple’s Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology
  • Jabber update
  • 5july ❤️ EFF
  • 5july advises the EU on new internet legislation

Archives

  • July 2022
  • August 2021
  • February 2021
  • December 2020
  • September 2020
  • May 2020
  • November 2019
  • June 2018
  • March 2018
  • July 2016
  • April 2016
  • December 2015
  • July 2015
  • February 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • September 2014
  • July 2014
  • January 2014
  • March 2013

Footer

Contact

info AT 5july.org
(PGP fingerprint: F6E3 61DC FB70 6E0D 3768 5A23 AEE1 E2FE A282 6DAA)

5 juli-stiftelsen
c/o Oscar Swartz
Box 549
101 30 Stockholm
Sweden

Donate

Bank name: Swedbank
IBAN: SE12 8000 0811 4106 3491 2166
BIC: SWEDSESS

Bankgiro (within Sweden): 183-1148

Bitcoin: 1JCJtXCtoSxtaRcsa23ePb1hN8FrxbLPMw

Formal

Organization number: 802477-8055

VAT number: SE802477805501

EFF member 2021RIPE NCC Member

Copyright © 2023 · Genesis Sample on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in