

Pirate Bay Co-Creator Working on Messaging App To Dodge Government Surveillance

Peter Sunde, one of founders of the file sharing site The Pirate Bay, is helping build a messaging platform called to circumnavigate government surveillance. The outline the new app in the video embedded above–what do you think?

The application will be free, but users can pay to unlock certain features at a later date. While they are still building the tool, they promise to release both an iOS and a Google Play edition of the app. Check it out:

As part of the ongoing mass surveillance, internet traffic is currently being stored and indexed in massive databases, allowing the data to be analyzed, searched and ultimately read at a later time. This affects everything we do online, from emails to search statistics and even our daily activities on social sites such as Facebook or Twitter. While we won’t be able to provide you with 100% privacy, we believe that we can make your conversations private enough to render mass surveillance ineffective. While most people seem to be concerned about the government reading the contents of private communications very few seem concerned about their ability to build sociograms. Our intent is that by encrypting and then tunneling all messages through the Hemlis network we are making it more difficult for them to data mine or build sociograms from your communications. The surveillance systems can see that you are using Hemlis but they can’t see what takes place inside the network.

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