Donation Controversy
The privacy-focused company Mullvad has clarified that a recent political donation made by one of its owners was a private act, not a corporate endorsement. The company reaffirmed its commitment to radical tolerance and its narrow focus on privacy and anti-surveillance advocacy.
Why it matters
This highlights the challenges privacy-centric organizations face in maintaining neutrality while operating in highly polarized political environments.
We would like to address the recent controversy about one of the owners of Mullvad making a donation to a Swedish political party.
It was a private donation from Daniel the individual. Mullvad or its parent and sister companies did not endorse and were not involved in it. Since it has attracted attention and questions we still think it appropriate to comment.
Mullvad is a political company. We fight for freedom of speech, freedom of information and the right to privacy. One way we achieve this is to make products and services that counteract censorship and mass surveillance. Another way is to support and/or develop privacy and security enhancing open source technologies such as WireGuard, Tor, Qubes, GrapheneOS, Sigsum and System Transparency. A third way is to do political campaigning against proposals such as Chat Control and identity verification.
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