The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group of digital rights, calls for the dismissal of Roman Storm in Tornado Cash Case
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a well -known digital rights group, filed a short amicus Roman Storm supportA developer of Crypto Privacy Protocol Tornado Cash (Torn).
The storm was charged with conspiracy to facilitate the launch of money, running an unlicensed money transmitter, and violation of penalties related to his work at the Tornado Cash Protocol.
“Government prosecution has raised greater civil freedom concerns that may have done the future development of technologies that enhance privacy broader,” EFF wrote in briefly.
Eff argues that storm persecution threatens the open source of change as the main issue in case of handling developers responsible for how their tools are used, rather than persecution directly Evil actors, may have a chilling effect on the development of privacy-focused software.
“Almost all privacy tools and non -introduction to software protection are dual tools. Like a physical mask or cash, they provide requirements, often critical protection for the writer.
During the storm, the government relies on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), allowing economic sanctions to impose and restrict transactions during the national emergency. This application, the disposition of eff, is inappropriate.
“If the government believes that these technologies should be criminalized, it must seek relief from Congress and do not rely on IEEPA and other laws that are deployed in this prosecution, or, worse Further, the attempt to bootstrap the older activities even further removed from any criminal acts in the ambition of these laws, ”wrote EFF.
If Congress wants to fix tools such as Tornado Cash, EFF is arguing, it has an authority to pass a law that clearly distinguishes legal from illegal use, but prosecution in this case has already failed Provide clarity.
The torn token reached about 50% in the last month, According to market dataIn the optimism of a desirable outcome for the storm.
The storm is Due to the return of the court In April.
