Roger Dingledine, who had been acting as interim executive eirector since May 2015, remained at The Tor Project as a director and board member. In December 2015, The Tor Project announced that it had hired Shari Steele, former executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as its new executive director. In May 2015, The Tor Project ended the Tor Cloud Service. In October 2014 The Tor Project hired the public relations firm Thomson Communications in order to improve its public image (particularly regarding the terms 'Dark Net' and 'hidden services,' which are widely viewed as being problematic) and to educate journalists about the technical aspects of Tor. federal government, the Tor service did not collaborate with the NSA to reveal identities of users. Tor executive director Andrew Lewman said that even though it accepts funds from the U.S. Dingledine said that the United States Department of Defense funds are more similar to a research grant than a procurement contract. The Swedish government and other organizations provided the other 20%, including NGOs and thousands of individual sponsors. State Department, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, and the National Science Foundation as major contributors, 'to aid democracy advocates in authoritarian states'. Īs of 2012, 80% of The Tor Project's $2 million annual budget came from the United States government, with the U.S.

International Broadcasting Bureau, Internews, Human Rights Watch, the University of Cambridge, Google, and Netherlands-based. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) acted as The Tor Project's fiscal sponsor in its early years, and early financial supporters of The Tor Project included the U.S. The Tor Project was founded by computer scientists Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson and five others in December 2006.

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