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Chat Control & Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU.

After Snowden’s whistleblowing in 2013, large parts of the internet became encrypted, enabling private and secure communication. Not everyone has welcomed this change. Most notably, the FBI and other U.S. government agencies have fought what is often called the “crypto wars”, the war on encryption. In recent years, they have been joined by the European Commission. Under the slogan “what about the children,” they try to introduce total mass surveillance of all EU citizens — first through the proposed Chat Control legislation, and later via the Going Dark and ProtectEU initiatives. The goal is to legally mandate spy tools on every European smartphone and computer. The forces behind these efforts have turned out to be American tech companies and intelligence agencies.

Digitalization and Signatures: Evidence from a Survey among German Citizens

We assess the knowledge of two legal norms central to the digital transformation of the German population in representative population survey: the revised requi

ELFA: Encrypted Local-First Architecture

The European Commission is funding the ELFA consortium to build a local-first, end-to-end encrypted workspace suite. Core tools include documents, spreadsheets, email, calendar, chat, and video calls.

OKCupid Co-Founder Max Krohn Believes People Are Ready to Love Encryption

Encryption has always been good, the problem is that it’s never been easy.

How (Not) to Write a Privacy Law

After many years of failed starts, proposed information privacy legislation has begun moving forward in both houses of Congress. The docket in the recently ended 116th Congress was crowded, with a number of different proposals jostling for attention and no agreement on which deserved to be the front runner. Even so, as the 117th Congress begins, there is growing inside-the-Beltway consensus on the list of features that a successful bill will need to include. This paper critically assesses those zones of emerging consensus.

Storage Box: secure & cheap online backup solution

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Why Meta is retreating from encryption

In 2019, Mark Zuckerberg called privacy the future of social networking. Not anymore

Lawful-access bill could threaten encryption, deter investment, Chamber of Commerce warns

Bill would require telecoms, internet companies to change systems to give surveillance, monitoring capabilities to authorities

Privacy as EU Tech advantage - The LeafPlaza Blog

Online crime loves legal massive data collection, grey systems, and jurisdictional gaps. Privacy-first design can actually reduce crime exposure and build trust in digital services. It is also central to the EU's tech autonomy: build systems aligning with European rights and risk models. Do not rely on foreign platforms or copy outside practices that might go against the EU values and needs.

Privatemode AI - The always encrypted AI service

Privatemode is the first AI service that protects the confidentiality of your data end-to-end. Use AI without security and privacy worries.

Let’s talk about AI and end-to-end encryption

Recently I came across a fantastic new paper by a group of NYU and Cornell researchers entitled “How to think about end-to-end encryption and AI.” I’m extremely grateful to see th…

Encrypted Spaces — Research preview

An architecture for collaborative applications where data is encrypted and operations are cryptographically verifiable.

Throwing your rights under the Omnibus - how the EU's reform agenda threatens to erase a decade of digital rights

A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of bureaucracy. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcise th...

HEIR: Homomorphic Encryption Intermediate Representation

HEIR is a compiler toolchain for fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). We aim to be the industry-standard compiler for FHE. Application developers, compiler engineers, hardware designers, and cryptography researchers can build upon HEIR to accelerate the research and development of production-strength privacy-first software systems.