Chatons

Chatons is the Collective of Alternative, Transparent, Open, Neutral and Supportive Hosts. This collective aims to bring together structures offering free, ethical and decentralised online services in order to allow users to quickly find alternatives that respect their data and their privacy to the services offered by the GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft).

Chatons is a collective initiated by the Framasoft association in 2016 following the success of its Degoogle Internet campaign. The objectives are multiple: 

 1. To offer beneficiaries a range of free services that respect their private/professional lives 

2. Give visibility to structures that share common values 

3. Sharing information among members More generally, it is a question of resisting the "googlisation" of the Internet. 

The gigantic reservoirs of data managed by the web giants not only harm privacy (by making mass surveillance possible, and by making the flaws in their systems catastrophic for millions, if not billions of users), but pose a more global, political and civic problem: what powers do we entrust in the hands of a few corporations?