not surprising...France isn't a safe country for open source privacy projects. They expect backdoors in encryption and for device access too. Secure devices and services are not going to be allowed. We don't feel safe using OVH for even a static website with servers in Canada/US via their Canada/US subsidiaries.
not surprising...
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I'd widen it to the whole EU these days...
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.fightchatcontrol.eu
as you can see it's a power game, the small countries are bending over in exchange of something in future...
I'd avoid these long term...
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the law couldn't pass, so they changed it from obligatory to "voluntarily 😉😉"
your ISP could "voluntarily 😉😉" read your chats/PMs 😕
maybe on paper these countries below are slightly better?
but once it's approved EU wide it doesn't matter who's good or bad...
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i had a chinese phone (xiaomi?) for testing and I found it was uploading **everything** and calling home every minute or so, even the location was tracked, every dns request was forwarded too 😳
are they banning the whole internet??a ban on the most harmful addictive practices and default disabling of other addictive features for minors
(including infinite scrolling, auto play, pull-to-refresh, reward loops, harmful gamification);
Expressing support for the Commission’s work to develop an EU age verification app and the European digital identity (eID) wallet,
MEPs insist that age assurance systems must be accurate and preserve minors’ privacy.
To incentivise better compliance with the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) and other relevant laws,
MEPs suggest senior managers could be made personally liable in cases of serious and persistent non-compliance, with particular respect to protection of minors and age verification.
And again the EU thinks it’s role is parenting its citizensToday's EU Parliament's resolution, backed by 483 votes to 92, with 86 abstentions, called for an EU-wide ban on access for children under 16 to online platforms, video-sharing sites and AI companions without parental consent and an outright ban for those younger than 13.
While I could agree with the final goal in a perfect world, the issue is how do we get there without limiting everyone's privacy?

Or just don't care about your freedom, your wealth, your health, your family, other people's lives...You gotta be crazy to remain in the EU today.
After he bought it in 2022, the site started issuing the badges to anyone who wanted to pay $8 per month.
That means X does not meaningfully verify who’s behind the account, “making it difficult for users to judge the authenticity of accounts and content they engage with,” the Commission said in its announcement.
“Deceiving users with blue checkmarks, obscuring information on ads and shutting out researchers have no place online in the EU. The DSA protects users,” Henna Virkkunen, the EU’s executive vice-president for tech sovereignty, security and democracy, said in a prepared statement.
Regulators also said X also puts up “unnecessary barriers” for researchers trying to access public data, which stymies research into systemic risks that European users face.
Yea sure, Elon's personal megaphone is a free platform 🤣oh forgot about the secret deal (allow censorship or get fined)