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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it's another piece of surveillance software. This week we have been exposed to the Pegasus scandal. Pegasus is a piece of malware, publicly advertised and sold by the NSO Group that can infect mobile devices with little to no action required by the phone owner. The extensive eavesdropping made possible by Pegasus violates multiple laws. Thus, selling such tool must be banned - just like the trade with nuclear weapons is banned.

In the early morning hours of June 8th, 2021 search warrants were executed around the globe and the users of custom devices with the encrypted messaging application AN0M were arrested on a wide variety of criminal charges. The application was developed by FBI, "secure" devices were distributed, and global law enforcement agencies got to work processing the remarkable amounts of data they were being freely given. This case shows why people interested in protecting their privacy must only trust open source applications.

Recently, the Norwegian Consumer Council published a report calling for a ban on surveillance-based ads. In solidarity, Tutanota joined the undersigned privacy-first organizations to send the following letter to EU and US regulators on July 7th, 2021, to encourage them to take action during legislative sessions and any relevant privacy discussions.

This is Tutanota's transparency report and warrant canary information. While in Germany a gag order is legally not possible, we want to give you peace of mind by publishing a warrant canary.

To protect the children! This is what politicians often state as the main argument when they push for weakening or banning encryption. So let's find out what current surveillance methods, namely the monitoring of telecommunications, is being used for in Germany.