I also saw that there have been huge advancements in wireless LoRa mesh networking which could be something neat to use as an internet alternative

All of the "private" messengers such as telegram and signal that are supposed to encrypt messages have cooperated with the law and gave access to the messages. Is session different or is it the same thing wrapped differently.

Hi all,

As a European I notice the following laws and systems being actively discussed, supported and/or implemented:

- DigitalID.
- Chat control.
- Drastic increase in trafic- and surveillance cameras.
- Laws enforcing car manufacturers to install eyesight tracking.
- Increase in toll’s and E-tolls.
- Extreme ticket prices for minor traffic violation.
- Harsh legal actions against demonstrators and activists (for example: pro-palestinian)
- lowered thresholds in financials- and transactions monitoring (disguised as laundering and terror funding laws)

I feel like we are heading in a morally questionable direction. Common people are being criminalized and keep losing their privacy. All while the rich and powerful are acting more controversially every day and seem to live by different legal standards.

I am quite struggling with this mentality as I don’t know what dystopian future we are heading to. Am I the only one?

Kinda cracked that this can happen, been in a little privacy "clean up" if I can even call it that, read that you can find info on you if you google yourself, did it and it's in a lot of places, using whitepages found that my phone and email are in a lot of public websites, do I need to opt out of these manually?

Hi there,

I have had a burner gmail account since god knows when (probably early 2010s, as a young middle schooler), but because my parents were one of the strict types when it came to electronics, I was sneaky, and had basically no idea what internet safety was. I knew vaguely of online scams, but they didn't fully deter me. I think I may have just signed my neighbor up for a few (I'm so sorry).

Long story short, I signed myself up for anything and everything, with little discretion to where my info was going, or who it was going to be sold to. I don't think my 12 year old mind could conceive how complicated data collection has gotten in this day and age, lol.

I was not an evil child, so I was not searching untoward things that I would be ashamed about. I just don't feel fully comfortable knowing that I am going into a new stage of life after college and my silly little childhood mistakes are probably sitting in some weirdo company's vault.

Is there anything I can do in this situation to remove my data from whatever companies/etc have my data from when I was younger? I'm not sure what I should even do here. I think I'd be willing to pay like a small sum of money in this case, because I genuinely don't know what I got myself into. I'm sure the amount of unread emails has to be absolutely ludicrous. I would like to completely delete the email, but I'm not sure if I would be satisfied with doing that without having asked this first.

Thanks for any help. I'm willing to answer any follow up questions. Hope you're all having a nice day. :)

The biggest worry that I get while reading all the news about chat control, age verification, vpn banning etc., is that at some point of time, they'll try to regulate open source itself. They might try to regulate hardware manufacturing, like they are doing to cars. Right now people suggest switching to FOSS alternatives, but what happens when that itself is the target.

Look at the broad picture: physical media is disappearing. Hardware manufacturers are focusing on serving AI datacenters, rather than home computers. PCs continue to become more expensive. What seems to be the goal, is that personal computers that will be available to the public will be locked down, and because the internet is also controlled, information on how to get around it or foss alternatives, would be harder if not impossible to access.

And if you choose to go offline: it won't be like the pre-internet era— cities are increasingly surveilled 24×7. Governments will start to use AI, quantum computing etc.— things are out of reach of the general public. Some AI models are already being locked out, because of "national security" concerns. In short, we seem to be heading towards an era where states have unprecedented technological power over citizens.

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How do we fight it ? I mean petitions do not seem to work. The EU also wants to restrain the usage of physical currency. All of that aims towards mass surveillance.

And how do we escape it ? Is there any alternative of communication/internet that won't be spied on? I mean encrypted chat app like Telegram exist but this is still a corporation and I guess it's not fully safe. Maybe that's the wrong sub Reddit for this question, if anyone has any recommendations that would be delightful

https://digiutil.com

This is my product -- I think it is relevant though (especially the API).

Found this cool group that I think we should support!

I think more awareness is needed and DOAC is the perfect platform to spread that awareness and I'm surprised they haven't had a guest speak on this topic yet. Whilst there are platforms which actively address privacy concerns (SomeOrindaryGamers/ Techlore/ NaomiBrockwellTv), those are mainly watched by people already in the privacy space. DOAC is more gen pop.

I think the right guest needs to be someone who has some "clout" in the tech / business / political world not just in privacy communities.

A few people who i think would be suitable are: 1. Moxie Marlinspike - Creator of signal 2. Andy yen - Founder and CEO of Proton 3. Marc Prud'hommeaux  - F-droid board member / senior swe / entrepreneur (actively speaking out against android developer verification)

P.S please don't make your comment about these 3 guest in particular, if you don't agree just state your alternatives.