The Tech Watch Project is a division of the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology (AIBRT), a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization. This project’s long-term goal is to be able to gather, analyze, and publish research data which will promote a safe and fair internet for adults and children alike. The team is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The Tech Watch Project is publicly funded and for research purposes only. Our variety of donors all agree that protecting children from inappropriate content on the internet, as well as reducing the presence of bias on the internet as a product of corporate agendas when searching the web as an adult, is of the utmost importance.

No. We are a non-partisan research group with the sole focus of making sure we have a fair and safe internet for all.

We are researching how information is shared by Big Tech companies. Our mission is to ensure that when searching the web, adults have access to factual information that is fairly distributed without bias or an agenda. The Tech Watch Project is also committed to protecting youth from harmful content that is all too often provided to them. To make this happen, we gather significant amounts of data, use filters to analyze the data, and then identify any trends the data might have. If we find trends that raise ethical red flags, we will then bring that data to the public. We are currently expanding towards a fully functioning, nationwide monitoring system as we believe this to be the only effective safeguard in protecting democracy and our youth. The Tech Watch Project is the first of its kind to be analyzing the real content Big Tech shares with adults and children with the intent to identify and cease any underhanded tactics when found in our research.

Absolutely. Tech Watch is founded on the principles of internet privacy and security, Therefore, we must take your privacy and security extremely seriously as well. We have an in-depth privacy policy for your reference upon request. All information obtained is strictly confidential and for the sole purpose of scientific research. Your information is never shared with nor sold to any individuals, organizations, or companies. Unlike Google, Facebook and other companies that collect and analyze data from individuals, we never look at data from individuals. When data is streamed to us from the computers of our participants, it is transmitted without identifying information. Unlike Google, we ONLY analyze aggregated data, never individual data.

No, unfortunately.  If we did, Google and the other Big Tech companies that we monitor would quickly send us thousands of compromised volunteers, and the data we collect would be invalid. The data would be fake since they would be able to curate everything on the volunteers’ screens–meaning it would be exactly what they wanted us to see. If you would like to help our research, please consider donating.