A Statement on the Joint Declaration of the European Police Chiefs: https://www.europol.europa.eu/cms/sites/default/files/documents/EDOC-%231384205-v1-Joint_Declaration_of_the_European_Police_Chiefs.PDF

Quilibrium is a U.S. based company. As such, our software is written and justified to exist by our First Amendment.

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

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Their claims of needing to have "lawful" intercept access to E2EE communications to help thwart crime and sickeningly using the exploitation of children as their justification is common and frankly one that isn't true. As a very infamous example, the FBI has managed time and time again to eliminate propagators of CSAM.

We are enshrining the constitution as code on the web. Quilibrium's goal is to secure every bit of traffic on the Internet and end the entrenched surveillance regime. If the EU sends us a letter, it's going to /dev/null.

We know privacy can be preserved while combatting crime. We have pioneered techniques to enable people to engage in commerce and retain compliance as they need to for the nations they live in: https://www.quilibrium.com/labs/token

The same can be done to combat CSAM.

We're not only sure of it, we are already working towards building an industry standard for it, so that when Quilibrium, Inc. offers image hosting services, it's baked into the design. MPC is not only a powerful tool for keeping people's private lives on the internet private, but also for saving lives.

This claim, is further blatantly proven to be a shield they hide behind to dodge criticism, when is has been shown over and over again that such intercept access is abused by these authorities to surveil ordinary law-abiding citizens, harass and intimidate, and in many cases, stalk their partners.