Wouldn't it be nice if we were free to surf the web free from fear of having our traffic monitored and emails scraped by the NSA? Well, if Nicholas Merrill has his way, we won't have to rely on anonymous browsers
or proxy servers -- we'll have a new ISP built from the ground up to
protect customer privacy. A non-profit, the Calyx Institute, will run
the ISP that'll employ end-to-end encryption on web traffic, plus
encrypted emails to prevent anyone other than the user, including the
ISP itself, from seeing people's internet activity. Because of this
structure, Calyx, quite literally, won't be able to comply with
governmental requests to obtain customer traffic data under the Patriot
or Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Acts. The best part is, such online
privacy may cost as little as $20 a month, and Merrill has hopes to
provide a similarly secure VoIP service at some point as well. Of
course, the venture will only be possible if Merrill can raise the $2
million needed to get it going -- which is why he's pitching the idea to
venture capitalists in Silicon Valley and the general public through
crowd-sourced funding site IndieGogo. Want to help out? Hit the the
source below to make a donation.
Via Engadget.com
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