Notices by Mullvad VPN (mullvadnet@mastodon.online)

@GrapheneOS

We can sponsor you.

Please contact us and share the specs to support@mullvadvpn.net

The UK has announced plans to fast-track legislation requiring “age verification for VPN use”. The correct term, however, is not age verification but identity verification.

A law like this would require everyone to identify themselves in order to use a VPN. This would pose a risk to whistleblowers, violate human rights, and represent yet another step toward an authoritarian society.

Today we sent 116 pages on mass surveillance and its consequences to each and every member of the EU Parliament.

This autumn, we urge them to vote for a free society. To say No to chat control.

Read all the articles at https://mullvad.net/why-privacy-matters

“Developing this browser with Mullvad is about providing people with more privacy options for everyday browsing and to challenge the current business model of exploiting people’s behavioral data,” says Isabela Fernandes, Executive Director, The Tor Project.

“From our perspective there has been a gap in the market for those who want to run a privacy-focused browser as good as the Tor Project’s but with a VPN instead of the Tor Network,” says Jan Jonsson, CEO at Mullvad VPN.

Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project today present the release of the Mullvad Browser.

A privacy-focused web browser designed to be used with a trustworthy VPN instead of the Tor Network.

Read the full story and download the browser here.

https://mullvad.net/browser

The proposed EU law Chat Control will not only create a centralized mass surveillance system and violate people's privacy. It will also ban open source operating systems as an unintended consequence.

If and when this law goes into effect it would make illegal the open source software services underpinning the majority of services and infrastructure on the internet.

Learn more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/2023/2/1/eu-chat-control-law-will-ban-open-source-operating-systems/

We currently have 6 jobs at our office in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Some with hybrid remote working possibilities.

Learn more and apply here: https://www.mullvad.careers/