Open Source. Open Standards. Open Future.
At Ethyca, we believe the only way to solve the complexity of modern data governance is to build in the open. That’s why we created Fides: the first open-source privacy engineering standard, designed to make privacy a foundational layer of every tech stack.
Philosophy
Open source is the
future of privacy
For too long, privacy has been fragmented: trapped in legal frameworks, compliance checklists, and slow-moving audits. Meanwhile, data moves faster than ever, and the teams that are first-line with sensitive data—engineers and data scientists—are left navigating a landscape of complexity without the right tools. That ends now.
Fides is built for developers, designed to automate privacy at the infrastructure level. It transforms compliance from a bureaucratic burden into an executable, machine-readable standard—allowing businesses to define, enforce, and scale privacy without guesswork.
Why open source? Because we believe privacy must be a standard, not a product.
The internet runs on open standards. TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS. These are protocols that power the digital world. But privacy has never had an equivalent. Instead, companies have been left to interpret regulations on their own, building one-off compliance frameworks that break as soon as systems scale.
Fides changes that. It provides a universal, transparent standard that ensures privacy is embedded into every system, enforced automatically, and auditable at any time. By being open-source, Fides allows the global engineering community to contribute, refine, and evolve privacy infrastructure as fast as technology itself advances.