不会的。 NymVPN is built to protect privacy, security, and digital freedom. We strongly oppose any use of the network for illegal activity, and the technology is designed for the people who need privacy most: journalists, activists, dissidents, ordinary people in censored regions, and anyone whose online life is targeted by surveillance.
Who NymVPN is for
The people who depend on strong privacy infrastructure aren't criminals. They're:
- Journalists and sources communicating about politically sensitive stories.
- Activists in countries where dissent puts them at physical risk.
- Whistleblowers reporting wrongdoing without exposing themselves to retaliation. NymVPN was built with the involvement of Chelsea Manning, who knows that need first-hand.
- People in censored regions who need to access the open internet from places where it's blocked.
- Ordinary users who don't want their ISPs, advertisers, or data brokers building a profile of everything they do online.
- Crypto users who need to keep transaction metadata private.
Privacy tools are neutral. Their effect depends on who uses them.
Encryption keeps your bank login safe and journalists' sources protected. The same encryption is used by every category of computer user, including bad actors. The right policy response is not to remove the tool but to address criminal behavior directly.
Taking away strong privacy infrastructure wouldn't stop people determined to commit crimes. They already have many ways to obscure their actions, and removing privacy from civilians wouldn't change that. What it would do is hurt regular users, journalists, activists, and even law enforcement officers who depend on strong privacy protections for legitimate work.
By design, we can't see what you do
This is structural, not just policy. NymVPN's architecture means no single party (including Nym itself) has the full picture of any user's activity:
- The mixnet is run by independent operators distributed across the world.
- Tunneled encryption means no node can read the content of traffic.
- zk-nym credentials mean even your payment can't be linked to your VPN use.
For the architectural detail see How does NymVPN handle user data and logging?
This is the same design that protects activists from authoritarian governments. It can't be selectively applied: a system that lets Nym de-anonymize "bad" users would also let Nym (or anyone who breaches Nym) de-anonymize good ones. Privacy by design is privacy for everyone, or it's privacy for no one.
Privacy is a human right
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 12) and the constitutions of most democracies recognize a right to privacy. Modern surveillance infrastructure, often deployed by advertisers and governments alike, erodes that right by default. Nym exists to restore it.
Our terms and transparency
The NymVPN terms of use prohibit illegal activity. We document our positions on disclosure and responsible vulnerability handling in the incident disclosure policy and vulnerability disclosure and bug bounty policy.
NymVPN isn't just another VPN service. It's part of a wider fight for an open, censorship-resistant internet, and the privacy infrastructure to make it real.