Encryption is not a luxury. It is the bedrock of modern civil liberties, human safety, free journalism, and global cybersecurity. We reject any law that demands backdoors under the guise of safety.
We believe that private communication must remain private. No government, intelligence agency, or corporation has the right to inspect personal correspondence without individualized, judicial warrants based on specific probable cause.
Cryptographic math does not distinguish between authorized government inspectors and hostile state hackers. A backdoor built for law enforcement will inevitably be discovered, exploited, and abused by criminal syndicates.
Proponents of EU Chat Control claim that Client-Side Scanning does not break End-to-End Encryption because messages are scanned before being encrypted on the sender's device. This is a semantic deception.
If a device scans your photos, messages, or files and reports flagged hashes to a centralized government database, confidentiality is shattered regardless of where the scan takes place. The end device itself becomes an untrusted surveillance node.
Chat Control directly violates Article 7 (Respect for private and family life) and Article 8 (Protection of personal data) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has repeatedly ruled that general and indiscriminate retention or scanning of communications is illegal.
1. We will never build or deploy client-side scanning software.
2. We will maintain open-source, privacy-preserving tools for the public.
3. We will educate citizens, developers, and policymakers on the critical importance of cryptography.
4. We will support privacy-first projects and node operators worldwide.