Seldom: An Anonymity Network with Selective Deanonymization

Is this a joke?

>... we design Seldom, an anonymity network with integrated selective deanonymization that disincentivizes criminal activity. Seldom enables law enforcement agencies to selectively access otherwise anonymized identities of misbehaving users while providing technical guarantees preventing these access rights from being misused. Seldom further ensures translucency, as each access request is approved by a trustworthy consortium of impartial entities and eventually disclosed to the public (without interfering with ongoing investigations).

Good luck finding a "trustworthy consortium of impartial entities" these days.

Privacy, and thus freedom, should never be under the control of a committee.