JonDonym is no technology for preventing law enforcement on the internet. In very serious cases, it is possible to uncover the abuse of Mix services.

User connections may be individually observed, if all operators of a Mix cascade get such an official order, valid in their respective country  (in Germany accourding to §100a/b StPO).

A respective legal obligation may moreover force some Mix operators to retain certain connection data. In contrast to surveillance (where this is often not allowed), the operator has to make this transparent to the users of his JonDonym Mixes via JonDo. Usually, such a data retention does neither comprise target addresses (websites) nor contents, but IP addresses of users only.

However, the independence of JonDonym operators vastly lowers the danger of an illegitimate law enforcement done by non-democratic states or arbitrary individual public officers. Any disclosure basically needs the cooperation of all operators of a Mix cascade.

Surveillance reports

Each year, we will publish a short report of all surveillance actions that were taken and have been reported to us by the operators. This comprises

• the number of surveillance orders,
• the duration of the actions and
• all other information that we are allowed to publish.

To the reports...