Zuck said Meta is in a "partnership" with White House; Google is following suit. They are all that stand between you and Trump admin data grabs.
Law enforcement requests for user data from Apple, Google, and Meta mean Big tech can decide whether US authorities have access to your personal info, like location data.
Meanwhile, Europeans are starting to see US data services as “no longer safe”
Here's a resource collection of non-US services, and more:
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in reply to xinit ☕ • • •Many of us have been doing that for years.
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It's no longer "basically".
Plus on the EU-side there was a lot of trust put on private assurances that private data wasn't used by US-interests.
Even though there are stories going back decides how US intelligence services have stolen EU company secrets and given to local enterprises.
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Unknown parent • • •There's no such thing as useless data.
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in reply to Violet Blue • • •Mark Burton
in reply to Violet Blue • • •Or cut to the chase with this list.
github.com/anitwek/alternative…
fwiw I use Mastodon, libre office, proton, pdrive, jitsi, qwant, Linux, librewolf browser, open street map.
But still have an Android (Google o.s. phone
GitHub - anitwek/alternatives-to-us: A curated list of non-U.S.-based alternatives to popular services, focusing on privacy and global accessibility.
GitHubPaul
in reply to Violet Blue • • •that’s all true but this has been true for decades. So on the one hand I’m really happy that finally people wake up to the dangers of having foreign governments snooping around in the data, on the other hand I’m really disappointed that it took so long before people finally woke up to the fact that foreign nations could spy on their data.
Specifically Microsoft ALWAYS has been very helpful to the US government for creating backdoors and delivering data on request.
Thomas DeRamus (he/him/his)
in reply to Violet Blue • • •Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌
in reply to Violet Blue • • •"Big Tech" is licking Trump's feet to be playing for the Orwellian Super Bowl.
Horrifying complicity.
P.S.: Under Trump's pathocracy law enforcement looks to be transformed into injustice enforcement.
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