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Quietly Moves Databases To Europe (lemmy.ca)
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Trump Bill Signing Meme "We will be prosecuting every:" "Fediverse instance located in the US"

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[–] 52 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Microsoft’s lawyer in France confirms that their datacenters in Europe can be accessed by US government

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago

    It's not news and since the cloud act, it should be obvious. Also, it means impossibility to respect GDPR so I am really angered by the lazyness of EU companies considering the US like an ally, and EU not applying GDPR to fine all USA companies into oblivion

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    France also has black boxes. Don't pick France or the UK. Netherlands, Sweden, Romania and Switzerland (I know) are good European choices. Also Germany but they're already the other half of reddit let's not put all our data centers in Berlin.

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    • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I’m in the US and I don’t even want a US email provider for the surveillance concerns alone.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    Protonmail, servers in Switzerland. Encrypted so that even proton doesn't have the key. The only downer is if you forget your login info and need to do a full account reset you also lose your encryption key as a new one is generated and old emails are unretrievable.

    Good in case of attempted account take over

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  • [+] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I did see that and I investigated Tuta. I had already paid for the year unfortunately. But I also wonder if he knows how Trump operates and would try to make foreign hosted encrypted data illegal, and so he was just pandering to trumps narcissism by congratulating him in his pick.

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    • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Is there more on this?

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    What is this in reference to? I'm not seeing anything

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I do recall users talking about how they need to get tankies deported around the time the ICE budget passed, so this isn't even unreal.

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Has this threat actually been said out loud?

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Another reason to move away from all the US based fediverse instances. Last i checked lemmy.world is US based and so are many others of the top servers.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    When did you last check? I thought Lemmy.world was Netherlands-based

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Lemmy.world is 100% hosted in Europe. Of course authoritarian groups left and right fantasize about it being hosted in the US for different reasons. Generally when their extreme views are moderated. However those groups also have a lot of control and resources to spread misinformation. Not to mention experience. So I don't find it surprising that a lot of people don't realize it's not.

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  • [+] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    LOL you guys just can't help yourselves can you? I'm sure it's just a matter of time until a right-wing American fascist supporter comes in here and whines about their freeze peaches being violated by .world because they couldn't be Nazi enough. But as I said extremists all, and no one whose opinion should be valued much.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I checked the location through fedidb.org a while ago and it said US, but i guess that was because of cloudflare then.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Yes. Any sort of automated scraping needs to be double checked. It's generally fine. But for things behind distributor services like cloudflare Etc. The IP return is going to say more about the person connecting to it than the people behind it.

    Quick addendum though. Cloud flare and AWS however are both in the United States if I'm not mistaken. And still vulnerable to being compromised by our fascist Administration. But the.world server itself is fine.

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