Does anyone have any recommendations for an external EUROPEAN DDoS protection service, like Cloudflare? 🤔
(I'm not asking for recommendations for a CDN, thanks.)
#ddos #cybersec #cybersecuriy #cloudflare #alternatives #gdpr #privacy
Ulrike Hahn
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"The centerpiece of the Thunderbird Pro offering is Thundermail, Thunderbird’s first official email hosting service. Built to support IMAP, SMTP, and JMAP protocols from day one, Thundermail will work seamlessly with the Thunderbird client and other standards-based email apps. Notably, the initial infrastructure will be based in Germany, a jurisdiction known for its robust data protection laws under the GDPR framework and a long-standing culture of digital privacy.
Locating Thundermail’s infrastructure in Germany positions the service as a privacy-focused alternative to US-based providers, many of which are subject to surveillance regimes like the CLOUD Act. Users will be able to bring their own custom domain or choose a Thunderbird-provided address with @thundermail.com or @tb.pro suffixes.
Thunderbird describes this move as part of its broader mission to reinforce support for open standards and provide users with a cohesive, privacy-conscious email experience, entirely within its own ecosystem."
https://cyberinsider.com/thunderbird-to-launch-encrypted-email-service-hosted-in-germany/
#EU#Germany#CyberSecurity#Thunderbird#GDPR#DataProtection#Email #Encryption#Privacy#OpenStandards
"The centerpiece of the Thunderbird Pro offering is Thundermail, Thunderbird’s first official email hosting service. Built to support IMAP, SMTP, and JMAP protocols from day one, Thundermail will work seamlessly with the Thunderbird client and other standards-based email apps. Notably, the initial infrastructure will be based in Germany, a jurisdiction known for its robust data protection laws under the GDPR framework and a long-standing culture of digital privacy.
Locating Thundermail’s infrastructure in Germany positions the service as a privacy-focused alternative to US-based providers, many of which are subject to surveillance regimes like the CLOUD Act. Users will be able to bring their own custom domain or choose a Thunderbird-provided address with @thundermail.com or @tb.pro suffixes.
Thunderbird describes this move as part of its broader mission to reinforce support for open standards and provide users with a cohesive, privacy-conscious email experience, entirely within its own ecosystem."
https://cyberinsider.com/thunderbird-to-launch-encrypted-email-service-hosted-in-germany/
#EU#Germany#CyberSecurity#Thunderbird#GDPR#DataProtection#Email #Encryption#Privacy#OpenStandards
🚆 Your rights should travel with you.
We’re working to make rail journeys across the EU fairer, proposing stronger passenger rights when combining tickets from different railway operators, including rights to:
✅ Reimbursement
🔁 Re-routing
🆘 Assistance
💶 Compensation
Currently, these rights don’t fully apply here, and we are seeking a fix.
Got any ideas or views to share?
Have your say 👉 https://europa.eu/!WNbQTd
@EUCommission that sounds great, we all like rights.
You know what else would be great? Not giving up our PRIVACY HUMAN RIGHTS and democratic fundamentals on *Oct 14th 2025*.
You know what else would be great? Not giving up our PRIVACY HUMAN RIGHTS and democratic fundamentals on *Oct 14th 2025*.
Please fellow EU's folks, join the @chatcontrol campaign:
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/#contact-tool
#fightchatcontrol#ChatControl #privacyrightsarehumanrights #privacyright #privacyrights #privacy#GDPR #europeanunion #europe #humanrights #democracy #democracynow#Surveillancesystem #masssurveillance #massurveillance #MassSurveilance
Repeat after me: The Linux Foundation are a bunch of Big Tech bellends. Don’t listen to a single thing they say.
https://social.lfx.dev/@linuxfoundation/114993371357953940
#FOSS #openSource #BigTech #LinuxFoundation #TheLinuxFoundation #linux #SiliconValley #Orwellian #bellends #GDPR #privacy #humanRights #democracy
It quoted a participant saying that "instead of using GDPR for its intended purpose, they just have made everybody scared for what it could do. The first five years, GDPR was only used to kill stuff, whereas, in fact, GDPR allows tons of stuff. There's no issue. But most people who don't know what you can do with it, they just go to this very safe side and say, you can't do anything anymore."
The report did not clarify the "they" or in general add much to what people said at the session.
The framing the report and the criticisms of the post about it are really missing is this:
Data protection in general and #GDPR in particular requires stating a reason for collecting data, and getting consent for that reason, prior to collecting it.
Done right, this prevents data from sitting around where it gets breached, from being used for unaccountable surveillance, from being sold and stored indefinitely. It does not prevent sharing data responsibly collected, esp with open uses in mind.
Neil Brown
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NL. Horrible data breach.
The data of 485,000 women who participated in the population screening for cervical cancer has been stolen via a hack. Not just personal information, such as name and address, was involved. Official identification numbers and test results were also captured.
NL. Horrible data breach.
The data of 485,000 women who participated in the population screening for cervical cancer has been stolen via a hack. Not just personal information, such as name and address, was involved. Official identification numbers and test results were also captured.
just small circles 🕊
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How to Block Meta AI?
You can’t.
But you can slow it down.
The first half of Meta’s bot behaves like any other bot — that part you can block. There are many scripts available that are effective at stopping bots, and they work well.
The second half of Meta’s AI is where the real problem lies.
Meta anticipated that people would eventually catch on to their AI scraping, so they designed a system that uses standard web browsers. The AI doesn’t directly visit your site — it interacts with a browser instance on another system. It just does this using countless small, distributed micro-instances.
#Meta #AI #ArtificialIntelligence#Fediverse #ActivityPub#Mastodon#Misskey
Neil Brown
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‘How Should Private-Sector GDPR Data Controllers and Processors Address Security Threats from State Actors?’, by Douwe Korff & Ian Brown https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5363593#privacy #gdpr #surveillance#police
‘How Should Private-Sector GDPR Data Controllers and Processors Address Security Threats from State Actors?’, by Douwe Korff & Ian Brown https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5363593#privacy #gdpr #surveillance#police
The research fairy
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are you German?
do you browse the web?
are you interested in €5000?
then consider suing Facebook for violating your privacy.
"The ruling in favor of the plaintiff sets a precedent which the court acknowledged will allow countless other users to sue without 'explicitly demonstrating individual damages'."
German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws | The Record from Recorded Future News
https://therecord.media/german-court-meta-tracking-tech
German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws
https://therecord.media/german-court-meta-tracking-tech
A German court has ruled that Meta must pay €5,000 ($5,900) to a German Facebook user who sued the platform for embedding tracking technology in third-party websites — a ruling that could open the door to large fines down the road over data privacy violations relating to pixels and similar tools.
The Regional Court of Leipzig in Germany ruled Friday that #Meta tracking pixels and software development kits embedded in countless websites and apps collect users’ data without their consent and violate the continent’s General Data Protection Regulation #GDPR.
Melissa Fehr
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New[ish] Privacy Guides article 🪪🚫
by me:
Age verification laws have been multiplying in recent years. This is extremely bad news for your privacy rights.
While framed as a measure to
protect the children, collecting more data on every users of the internet endangers everyone, including the children.
This isn't a protective measure,
this is authoritarian policies normalizing mass surveillance and silencing dissidents.
It could very much become
the end of pseudonymity online,
if we do not push back against it.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/06/age-verification-wants-your-face/
#PrivacyGuides#Privacy#AgeVerification#GDPR#Biometrics#MassSurveillance
All Europeans 🇪🇺
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I personally have moved to a #cloud provider in the #EU. The #GDPR is your friend. I am using #Nextcloud, which gives one a wide choice of ISPs in different countries, or one can self-host, as it is all open-source.
I have also downloaded "Organic Maps" which works offline and doesn't track you.
alcinnz
and 2 others
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What does the Digital Services Act (DSA) mean for online advertising and adtech?
New blog post by Pieter Wolters and me.
Our most controversial claim is that ad networks and some other adtech companies must be considered ‘platforms’ in the sense of the DSA.
Hence, they must comply with the DSA’s general rules for platforms.
https://dsa-observatory.eu/2025/08/01/what-does-the-dsa-mean-for-online-advertising-and-adtech/
#law #politics #economy#tech #ai #platforms #advertising #marketing #dsa#privacy #gdpr
