Alexis Roussel – Pirate Security Conference

Alexis Roussel

Alexis Roussel

is a member of the Swiss Pirate Party and has also been active as its president. The lawyer is an entrepreneur and executive in several companies for privacy tech to Bitcoins trading in Neuchâtel. He wants to anchor “digital integrity” in the Swiss constitution with a new initiative, and already succeeded in the Geneva Canton constitution.

Alexis Roussel grew up in Holland and has lived in France and Belgium. “When I came back to Switzerland, I noticed how many opportunities are available here,” he says. When Roussel started talking about cryptocurrency, Bitcoins and digital transfers ten years ago – it was the time of Wikileaks – he often met with skepticism. “But I was allowed to experiment and started my own business,” he says.

Roussel’s company Bity trades the digital currency Bitcoin in the Neuchâtel area and the surrounding area.

“I joined the Pirate Party because they deal with many specific topics that interest me. One example: How do you operate on the Internet and still be protected?”

Now Roussel is the COO of NYM Technologies SA that build the largest mixnet, a communication network that allows anonymous and unobservable communications.

Because he believes everyone on the Internet lives a digital life, he wants to amend the Swiss Federal Constitution. “It states that we have a right to physical and mental integrity. “Which should be added: That we also have a right to digital integrity, to a digital life. …and that it should be protected.”

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Ten years of the Pirate Security Conference

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