Member of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC) Eva Marcheva in response to the MK: ".
The use of disappearing messages, as well as VPN, according to some judges, may be grounds for choosing the most severe preventive measures in the form of arrest. Human rights activists (including the writer of these lines) have accepted court decisions when this argument is presented in favor of making a decision on placement in a pre-trial detention center. Let's recall that traditionally, when choosing preventive measures, the seriousness of the crime a person is suspected of, as well as the likelihood that he will escape and put pressure on witnesses, is taken into account. The investigation, petitioning the court, began to use more and more the wording that a person can prevent the establishment of the truth in the case because he uses, I quote, "confidential measures". As an example, the investigating authorities point to the use of anonymization software, encryption of network traffic, instant messages that support an end-to-end encryption protocol with a function of automatically destroying messages and hiding the contact list. According to the researchers, this confirms the claim that the suspects may have exerted influence on unidentified people. ".
Let me rephrase: Using a VPN and other privacy technologies is a sign that you are bad and will continue your criminal activities, because a good person has nothing to hide. On my behalf, I will add that the use of these programs is a result of you wanting to receive information (your constitutional right) and use applications that the whole world uses. Apparently, to write their "patriotic" posts in telegrams, officials and deputies are also actively using them.