About Faraday

Faraday helps high-risk people and organisations protect their online identity and digital privacy. That includes people at risk because of who they are, what they do for a living, or the information they handle. Our work covers digital privacy, online safety, information security, data governance and reputation, sometimes planned well in advance and often in a crisis.

Faraday was founded in Auckland by Jacques Cantin, whose work brings together law and policy, information security, digital privacy and Māori data sovereignty.

Why the name

A Faraday cage is a metal mesh that controls which electromagnetic signals get in and out. Good privacy does the same for information about you.

Why it’s free

We’ve published what we know as an open commons for Aotearoa, with guides, tools and templates anyone can use and adapt. See why we’re giving it away.

How we work

• Grounded in primary sources. Every legal claim links to the legislation or the regulator’s guidance, with the date we last checked it. See sources and checks.
• Written for New Zealand. New Zealand law, New Zealand agencies, New Zealand phone numbers, New Zealand English.
• Honest about limits. We tell you when you need a lawyer, an incident responder or an advocate. See free versus paid.
• Practising what we preach. This site has no analytics, no cookies, no third-party fonts or scripts, and a strict content security policy. See our privacy statement.
• Careful with dual-use knowledge. Advice about what’s public about a person can help someone protect themselves, or help someone find them. We write from the defender’s side, and our editorial standards set out how we decide.

Contact

If you need advice on your situation, email hello@faradayhq.com. We read everything, but we’re not a crisis service. If something is happening now, go to Get help now.