Our Mission

Privacy is a right,
not a privilege.

HushHush's goal is to bring users' privacy and security back in their control.

The Context

I use a messaging app. You probably do too. It's how we talk to our friends, our family; almost every connection we have has moved from being purely in-person to being constantly online. But with the advent of Big Tech, this also means everything we share isn't just shared with the people we want. It's also shared with an algorithm, a tracking model, a data scraper.

At what point did we decide that losing our privacy was an acceptable price for staying connected?

Today, privacy has been rebranded as a luxury, yet we generate a digital footprint with every step we take. This metadata is a valuable commodity—mined by corporations, scraped for AI training models, and increasingly targeted by shifting global legislation in the name of security. Between high-profile breaches of secure services, the trading of our data by major corporations, and court orders mandating the turnover of personal info, our digital vulnerabilities only continue to grow.

HushHush was created to join the movement for stronger digital rights by building a system that is as accessible as it is uncompromising. We believe that privacy is more than a privilege— it's a right.

Meet the Team

The people behind the privacy.

We built HushHush because we believe that reclaiming digital anonymity shouldn't require compromising on user experience. Coming from backgrounds in corporate technology and international law, we witnessed firsthand how deeply modern digital infrastructure is designed to harvest data. HushHush is our answer: a no-compromise encryption layer built to put the control back in your hands.

Oskar and Shania

Oskar Andjelic

Co-Founder

During my time working as a Tech Consultant at Deloitte London, I spent five years working across a variety of industries, across fintech, the public sector, and private enterprise. Through a deep dive into how information moves through these global systems, I came to a clear conclusion: most modern platforms are built for the collector, not the user.

Most modern platforms are designed to maximise the volume of data held over the individual, which in turn creates a landscape where your digital footprint is no longer really your own and you must trust the companies to keep your data safe. Starting HushHush came from a desire to change that; I wanted to build a tool that gives data ownership back to you, instead of keeping it for companies to retain and monetise.

Shania Chakravertty

Co-Founder

My background is in Law at the LSE, where I spent four years focused on Public International Law and civil liberties. My time there was a bit of a deep dive into everything from the fascinating legal landscape of outer space to constitutional rights. Through it all, I've stayed focused on one question: how do we protect our liberties in a world that's changing faster than we can regulate it?

Big Tech often exploits the 'lag time' between innovation and the law to harvest our data for AI training models, which in turn, exploits us and our abilities to consent to having our data used. Joining HushHush came from a desire to reclaim some of our autonomy, to stop waiting for the law to catch up and start building privacy directly into the tech itself.