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For 15+ years, the internet has become less free + less safe.
In 2025 alone, authorities imposed at least 313 internet shutdowns across 52 countries
Privacy is not just about browsing.
It's about preserving sovereignty in how we build, communicate, and connect online.
NOMAD.
You deserve to wander, freely.
The ability to freely browse, connect with services, and communicate with others online is a critical aspect to both individual autonomy and democratic participation in society.
You are more, than your data.
Should governments be able to scan private messages without individual suspicion?
“Chat Control 2.0” could affect 450M Europeans, with proposals to scan parts of messaging services for CSAM.
Protecting children is imperative, but mass scanning sets a dangerous precedent.
The future of privacy isn’t better promises or even better awareness.
It’s having less to expose.
‼️ BREAKING: The threat actors who targeted Revolut with information-demand emails are now posting sensitive customer data, including that of high-profile clients such as tennis player Shevchenko and Römer, CEO of Gamdom/Skinscom.
They want Revolut to pay up. They say they'll release more messages, data and insights into how the Revolut team operates.
They're accusing Revolut of handing over sensitive information to countries outside its jurisdiction.
They accuse the company of negligence around privacy and the exposure of sensitive information.
Not a single day of 2025 passed without an internet shutdown somewhere in the world.
313 shutdowns. 52 countries.
For the third year running, conflict was the leading trigger; with 125 conflict-related shutdowns across 14 countries, accounting for 40% of the global total.
Other shutdowns came amid protests, elections & political instability.
For millions, losing access meant isolation from family, information, work, financial services and the outside world.
An open internet cannot exist at the discretion of those with the power to switch it off.
Privacy means something different to everyone.
For some, it’s security. For others, freedom, independence, or simply knowing that not every part of life needs to be shared.
So we asked our community a simple question:
Why does privacy matter to you?
Why privacy matters. 🧵
Project SHAMROCK was a U.S. surveillance program that ran from 1945–1975.
For nearly 30 years, intelligence agencies received copies of most international telegrams leaving the U.S.
The NSA was reviewing ~150K telegrams every month, at its peak.
4/5 By its later years, NSA analysts were reviewing ~150,000 telegrams every month.
Only a handful of executive officials reportedly even knew SHAMROCK existed.
It ended in May 1975 as congressional scrutiny intensified. The Church Committee subsequently exposed its grand scale.
We never agreed to a surveillance state. Yet our movements, devices and data are increasingly tracked, traded and sold.
For those who want to communicate, work and build across borders, privacy is freedom of movement. It is dignity.
It is your right, Nomad's.














