Support SAI

The most meaningful way to support SAI is by making a donation. All donations go directly to the civil society organizations we support. Here’s how:

• Anyone can donate to SAI through our Donation Pay page.
• Interested in redirecting a bug bounty? Many bug bounty programs offer matching donations. Contact your bug bounty program administrator or email us.
• Taking advantage of a donation match by your employer? Let us know what matching program your company uses and we’ll make sure we’re set to receive it.

Interested in providing technical support or other expertise? We’re not actively seeking support at this time, but we’d love to hear from you.

WHY SUPPORT SAI?

The Spyware Accountability Initiative (SAI) is a global movement to protect human rights defenders, journalists, and activists worldwide. We’ve provided grants to over 45 organizations around the world, making it harder for bad actors to develop, acquire, and deploy these dangerous surveillance technologies. Work we support includes:

• Powering a Network of Defenders
  SAI-supported research labs in Latin America have built a powerful, collaborative network to share tools and ideas, helping smaller organizations develop the ability to uncover advanced spyware operations. To fuel this work, regional leader SocialTIC created a key resource: the Digital Forensics for Human Rights Defenders portal. This multilingual guide shares expert methodologies and best practices, empowering emerging threat labs across the region to build their capacity and strengthen the entire network’s ability to fight back against targeted surveillance.
  

• Pursuing Justice, No Matter the Odds
  Legal momentum is building: a U.S. court ordered NSO Group to pay $167 million in damages in its case with Meta, and an appeals court revived a suit against NSO led by SAI grantee Knight First Amendment Institute. Both of these actions were advanced by the legal arguments and technical evidence of SAI partners. At the same time, we fund the painstaking work of partners like Media Defence, which has pursued more than 20 spyware cases and continues to fight for victims by filing appeals in countries with poor judicial independence.
  

• Making Technology Safer for Everyone
  A global network of SAI partners from DigitalReach in Southeast Asia to CyberHUB in Armenia are on the front lines of technical discovery, finding and closing the security holes that spyware companies exploit. In one case, researchers at Citizen Lab discovered a flaw in Apple’s Messages app that was actively being used to infect the phones of European journalists with spyware. They reported the vulnerability to Apple, which promptly issued a patch to secure the millions of iPhones used by activists, reporters, and citizens around the world.

Join the Fight. A donation to the Spyware Accountability Initiative directly supports the investigations, litigation, and advocacy needed to protect freedom and democracy worldwide. Every dollar of your donation goes directly to grants. Make a direct donation now or email us.