Activist organizations have unique security and privacy concerns. Organizations advocating for change must safeguard their communications to protect members from surveillance, infiltration and cyber threats. Email and texting are the cornerstones of communication but both come with downsides for activists.
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Risks to Communities Online
- Privacy Risks: Sharing personal email addresses or phone numbers within a large group exposes everyone to risks like spam, phishing, unwanted solicitations and even identity theft.
- Group Management: Organizing communication among dozens of members can be chaotic, especially when people have varying levels of tech-savviness.
- Lost Contacts: The larger a group grows and the more people change their email addresses or phone numbers, the harder it is to keep everyone’s address book up to date.
- Security Concerns: Using unsecured platforms can expose sensitive family information to cyber threats.
- Trust: We all want to assume the best of our associates and companions. However, there are untrustworthy actors and sometimes they are in our groups.
EMail Parrot™ addresses these issues head-on, providing a safe, streamlined way for communities to communicate over email.
Anonymization to Prevent Network Mapping
EMail Parrot™ anonymizes email group members, ensuring that even if one account is breached, other members’ identities and contact information remain private. This limits the damage hackers can inflict and prevents them from escalating their attack to a wider network.
The “Fox Hunt” hack-and-leak operation, targeting environmental groups like Greenpeace and the Union of Concerned Scientists, exposed vulnerabilities in email systems that attackers exploited to disrupt campaigns and discredit their efforts. They targeted activists, funders and family members based on data harvested from compromised accounts. Anonymization would have disrupted their ability to map and infiltrate broader networks.
Organizations advocating for change must safeguard their communications to protect members from surveillance, infiltration and cyber threats. For resistance and activist movements, secure collaboration is essential—not just for effectiveness, but for safety.
Privacy and Anonymity for All Members
For many activists, the fear of being tracked or identified online is a real concern. EMail Parrot™ addresses this by providing a layer of privacy for all participants. By protecting the identities of its users, the service allows individuals to engage in the movement without fear of their personal data being compromised or exposed to external actors with malicious intent.
Management of Subgroups and Direct Messaging (DM)
Group contact management can be a challenge especially for larger groups. Email addresses and phone numbers change and keeping everyone up to date on the latest contacts is difficult. Activists often change or rotate their email addresses on a regular basis and these changes create contact lapses. EMail Parrot’s centralized lists make changes in one place, updates all members' routing. One change to the email list and even DMs are routed correctly.
The ability to organize participants into subgroups is essential for large, diverse movements. EMail Parrot™ offers this feature, allowing specific groups within the movement to focus on particular projects or initiatives while maintaining secure communication. Additionally, private messaging options ensure that members can communicate individually or in small, secure groups—further reducing the risk of information leaks or external tampering.
Improving sign-up campaign results
Sometimes people are reluctant to give contact information is due to concerns over how it will be used and what downsides they might experience. Giving assurances that all contact information will remain secure and private goes a long way towards reducing this concern.
Today you may not be able to give that assurance as you need to have group email or text exchanges. Even secure apps like Signal and WhatsApp don’t hide the personal contact information of group members. With EMail Parrot™ you can assure people that only your list admin will have access to email addresses and that no communications will go out exposing any email addresses to others.
Reducing Social Media Exposure
Often volunteer groups turn to social media to communicate but these services have their own costs. Privacy loss, personal data scraping, targeted advertisements. Staying connected is great but having your private information sold to data brokers is not. And as they say - internet information lasts forever!
If you want to keep your private information private then EMail Parrot is right for you. We don’t keep your emails and we don’t scrape them for information about you. You can stay connected and not feed internet’s personal information database with EMail Parrot™. Plus we don’t push ads on you.
Conclusion
For Social Movements, protecting communications from external threats is essential for effective action. EMail Parrot™ offers a secure, private, and user-friendly solution that ensures these groups can organize, communicate, and advocate for change without compromising their members’ safety. Whether it’s preventing infiltration by spies, keeping sensitive information secure, or ensuring that all participants feel confident in their involvement, EMail Parrot™ provides the tools necessary for movements to thrive in an increasingly complex and unpredictable world.