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EU sovereignDNS Privacy & FilteringHeadquarters: AT

Foundation for Applied Privacy: sovereignty score

The Foundation for Applied Privacy operates a public DNS resolver that anyone can use free of charge. It supports DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and DNS over TLS (DoT) and performs DNSSEC validation. It does not filter or block anything: answers from the authoritative name servers are passed on unchanged. Plain DNS over UDP/53 is not offered, and DNS over QUIC is still on the operator's wishlist. You configure it with the DoH URL or DoT address in your operating system, browser or router.

The foundation is a non-profit organisation based in Vienna, Austria, and the DNS servers are in Vienna as well. There is no non-European parent company, and processing takes place inside the EU. The operator itself labels the DoH endpoint as experimental and best-effort, which matters for organisations considering production use. For details on data handling, the operator points to its own privacy policy, which you should read before relying on the service.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 5, 2026
Headquarters
AT (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
DNS Privacy & Filtering
Type
Service
Website
applied-privacy.net ↗

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Foundation for Applied Privacy

Foundation for Applied Privacy is headquartered in AT and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Foundation for Applied Privacy scores best on data residency.

Foundation for Applied Privacy is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

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Frequently asked questions

Is Foundation for Applied Privacy GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Foundation for Applied Privacy is headquartered in AT (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Foundation for Applied Privacy an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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