Charlotte

Weird, I've checked the BBC, Guardian, Telegraph and Daily Heil reports on the summit and they all seem to forget to mention anything about these comments

we don’t have “local” police like in the US but we have state police

sadly there are some local contracts with palantir in germany as well, and ISPs do retain some data about you here too

I am not familiar with how exactly the agreement treaty is enforced in switzerland but I am not actually sure it involves court orders. I read that proton complies with over 90% of these requests, which implies that it’s possible to legally object to the requests

Two women in a sketchy image. They both sit around a corner and away from view. One woman with grey hair in ringlets sits atop a surface, wearing an off-white garb that's been pushed aside and is decorated with golden jewelry. She has dark skin and golden freckles, and slightly pointed ears. Between her legs another woman leans in close, her face obscured in the other woman's neck/shoulder. She wears dark purples and leather armor on her shoulder, and has fair skin and red hair. She places one hand on the wall behind her and the other is hidden from view behind the other woman's legs, but the implication of WHERE her hand is is obvious. The woman who's sitting's eyes are closed and her mouth open. Her legs also quiver slightly. The text says "Ah-!" from her, and the red haired woman shushes her quietly.

A little doodle of Rosie and her shitty ex girlfriend who used to visit her temple often to....... hang out.

#ocart #wlwart #sapphicart #yuri

(of course conservatives want more surveillance in germany too but so far they weren't always successful)

also, as I said, it depends on the country. EU privacy laws, while basically systematically broken by the US and being fully insufficient, are better than the situation in the US, and eg germany does not have CCTV anywhere near as much as eg the UK

I mean, it always is contextual. if you are doing illegal actions, you are aware of the specific panopticon you live in and avoid it identifying you while doing that specific action, and then you go back to using instagram afterwards, right?

and the last one also has levels, most police is a bit incompetent, but if you are somehow getting targeted by an intelligence agency, it gets pretty hard, and proton mail will definitely not suffice at all there

well, I think safety is dependent on the threat model. if you use your email to write your aunt, that's different from doing climate activism in the EU. basically, the question is are you afraid of a person with regular technical expertise, high technical expertise, or the resources of a government.

I think some countries are a lot better on these things than others, still. sadly, sitzerland also got a lot worse on this last year, so there's that.
but yea, it's getting harder and harder to actually be anonymous online

okay, apparently they did actually move some infrastructure to the EU, the law blog I read the previous info on might have been outdated or just misinformed.

yes.
apparently proton mail also threatened to leave switzerland if a certain legislation was passed that makes it easier for authorities to request information, and then... didn't
lol

they have done this regularly, actually, and the swiss authorities never experienced any resistance

I read that yesterday, they provided IP addresses to france, which, like, why would they even save IP addresses

I mean, it does not compromise the concept of their service, because the concept of their service is earning money, and not offering cc would hurt that concept

it was not "forced into compliance" by the swiss government, it -complied- with the swiss government. pretending theren was any force is actually misleading, proton has never done anything but complied with all of these requests by the swiss government

a lot of people are saying the headline is misleading because there was no legal way to fight the swiss authorities on this, and babe, "not helping the FBI is illegal" doesn't mean you didn't help the FBI.

what, exactly, is misleading here?

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I think there's gonna be a growing anti-democracy movement as part of the gerontocratic right as they increasingly convince themselves that they are the last generation that deserves a right to vote

the US is the kinda country that happens when the government manages to suppress the left for basically more than a century so that capitalism and the state live in perfect harmony, ie in a way that destroys everything

fühle.

I love watching people use LLMs in public. They’ll reply to a breaking news article and say “@grok is this true?” Babe where do you think it’s about to pull its answer from

finally relaxing my back muscles, no more back pain, yeaaaaa

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

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CN Bürgergeld, Amtsärzte

Es ist verantwortungslos, dass die Politik so viel Verantwortung auf Amtsärzt*innen schiebt, ohne dafür zu sorgen, dass es eine funktionierende Kontrolle über deren Handeln gibt, die die Rechte Betroffener sichert.

(obligatory the policy would also be bullshit if all of this wasn't the case)

we do know about women with Y chromosomes where it was only detected by coincidence, it is totally unclear how high the prevalence of eg chimerism after birth is, afaik

there have been, afaik, no studies on the presence of Y chromosomes in cis women though, the intersex data we have (which also widely differs depending on definition) is usually about people with certain symptoms or external features that made it noticeable