diff --git a/wiki/src/news/zwiebelfreunde_raided.mdwn b/wiki/src/news/zwiebelfreunde_raided.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3bb974a083eeaca5519820f8748bbf9d294b6772 --- /dev/null +++ b/wiki/src/news/zwiebelfreunde_raided.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +[[!meta date="Thu, 5 Jul 2018 15:00:00 +0000"]] +[[!meta title="Police raid at Zwiebelfreunde: Donor data compromised"]] +[[!tag announce]] + +On June 20th 2018, German police searched the homes of board members of our +former fiscal sponsor Zwiebelfreunde in a coordinated raid. Zwiebelfreunde +(_Friends of onions_ in German) is a non-profit organization that supports +privacy and anonymity projects and operates several Tor exit nodes. + +They are not accused of a crime but considered to be witnesses in a case: the +operators of an anonymous website calling for protest against the far-right AfD +(Alternative for Germany) party convention used an email address at Riseup, a +privacy-friendly email provider to which Zwiebelfreunde facilitates donations. + +During the search, computers, storage media, personal items, bank account +records, and paper receipts have been confiscated. This unfortunately means +that if you have donated to Tails before October 18th 2017 using our European +bank account, your data is now in the hands of the German police (IBAN account +number, name of account holder, amount, and date). If you donated after this +date, you donated to our new fiscal sponsor CCT and not to Zwiebelfreunde. + +According to Moritz Bartl, one of the board members, "*there's a long history of +police using that kind of data to investigate social structures; who's working +where, who's involved in which projects, so we have to assume that they are +looking into the social networks of people*" +([[Source|https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-police-raid-homes-of-tor-linked-groups-board-members/]]). + +The raid has been strongly criticized by [German +media](http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/hausdurchsuchungen-bei-netzaktivisten-chaos-computer-club-kritisiert-polizeivorgehen-a-1216463.html) +and [digital rights +activists](https://netzpolitik.org/2018/zwiebelfreunde-durchsuchungen-wenn-zeugen-wie-straftaeter-behandelt-werden/) +as being +[disproportionate](https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2018/hausdurchsuchungen-bei-vereinsvorstanden-der-zwiebelfreunde-und-im-openlab-augsburg). + +Please join us in supporting our friends at +[Zwiebelfreunde](https://www.zwiebelfreunde.de/). We are very grateful for the +support they have provided to Tails. + +Read more about the case and find links to international press coverage on +[Zwiebelfreunde's +blog](https://blog.torservers.net/20180704/coordinated-raids-of-zwiebelfreunde-at-various-locations-in-germany.html).