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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by makeasnek@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

What you can do: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/messaging-and-chat-control/#WhatYouCanDo

Contact your MEP: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home

Edit: Article linked is from 2002 (overview of why this legislation is bad), but it is coming up for a vote on the 19th see https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/council-to-greenlight-chat-control-take-action-now/

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[-] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago

Regarding email which provider would be best suited if this goes true? Because Tuta is hosted in Germany it seems less optimal then say Proton?

[-] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 10 points 5 months ago

If I cared about the contents of email staying safe, would rather not depend on a provider and just use provider-independent PGP. If safety is more important than universality - then I'd use something outside of email in general, like XMPP+OMEMO or maybe Simplex.

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Before privacy guides changed there was a spreadsheet with all providers, security details and wether or not they have ever complied to government requesting access.

If i recall correctly proton did not score very great. Disroot did very well on paper but was considered new and had yet to proof itself

Anyone know if this (updated) information still exists?

[-] Jako301@feddit.de 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Proton pretty much always complies with government access requests, and they never claimed otherwise. They, however, don't have access to the content of your emails due to their encryption, meaning the data they give to governments is restricted to what you give them. They can at most give out your name, payment information, and backup mail if you voluntarily gave that info to them.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

I honestly don't see how they can regulate pgp encryption. How would that work?

[-] starman@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

It doesn't make a big difference. You are going to send emails to Gmail most of the time anyway.

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