MIT-licensed proof-of-work CAPTCHA from Brno (BAU Software s.r.o.) with a public DPA and EU-only Cloud endpoints, though the Cloud itself runs on AWS.
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mosparo Association, 5507 Mellingen, Switzerland
MIT-licensed self-hosted spam protection from a Swiss non-profit association: you run it on your own server, so there is no processor chain at all.
mosparo, in the CAPTCHA & bot protection category, is an EU-owned service with Switzerland as its hosting location and no identified CLOUD Act exposure.
mosparo is self-hosted spam protection under the MIT licence, published by the mosparo Association, a non-profit association based in Mellingen, Switzerland. There is no hosted service and no vendor account, which is exactly why it scores as it does: you run mosparo on your own infrastructure, the form data is checked on your server, and there is no third party in the path at all, so there is no sub-processor chain to audit and no CLOUD Act surface to assess: None. The DPA criterion does not apply, because the association never processes customer data and has no agreement to publish; under our rubric that exemption covers self-hosted software. The association's own website states that it stores no personal data of visitors, not even IP addresses in log files. The trade-off is the obvious one: no managed option, no SLA, and you carry the operations, updates and security patching yourself.
How exposed customer data is to US authorities under the CLOUD Act (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act).
Where ultimate control over the operating company sits.
mosparo is self-hosted spam protection for web forms, released under the MIT licence and maintained by the mosparo Association, a non-profit association registered in Mellingen, Switzerland. It takes a different approach from the rest of this category: rather than challenging the visitor or scoring their behaviour against a remote signal graph, mosparo analyses the submitted form content on your own server, combined with honeypot fields and interaction checks, and decides from that whether the submission is spam. From the visitor's side the result is that there is usually nothing to do at all.
For an EU-sovereignty audit this is the simplest listing on the site to reason about, because there is nothing to audit. You install mosparo on your own infrastructure, so the association never sees a visitor, never receives form data and never becomes a processor. That means no sub-processor chain, no data-transfer question, no DPA to chase and no exposure to any foreign legal regime through the vendor: None. The association's own website states it stores no personal data from visitors, not even IP addresses in log files, and is hosted by zepi, with downloads distributed via GitHub. The project is MIT licensed with roughly 300 stars on its repository and offers integrations for the common CMS and form platforms.
The trade-offs are the ones that always come with self-hosting, and they are real. There is no managed service, so there is nothing to buy and nobody to call: you own the deployment, the updates, the database and the security patching. There is no uptime SLA, no support contract, and no vendor to put in front of an auditor. Detection is content-based, which suits contact and registration forms very well and is a different tool from the traffic-level bot filtering that Prosopo or CaptchaFox offer at the edge. Best fit: teams that already run their own EU infrastructure and for whom the actual requirement is removing every third party from the form path, particularly public-sector and privacy-critical sites.
MIT-licensed proof-of-work CAPTCHA from Brno (BAU Software s.r.o.) with a public DPA and EU-only Cloud endpoints, though the Cloud itself runs on AWS.
Invisible proof-of-work form spam filter (Formspark team), free to 1,000 challenges a month, with a published sub-processor list that is mostly American and no legal entity named.
Vienna CAPTCHA (Captcha GmbH, part of the Krone Multimedia group) with named processors, from 8.90 EUR/month, but the site itself runs on AWS CloudFront and Google analytics.