what is it with chinese-made games and extremely invasive anticheats

hijacking update channels is a possibility but as the other guy said very unlikely

Yeah, he learned it from the Russians

Because as we all know Chinese companies never collect people’s data

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yeah like hell i will. remember to protect yourself with something like fawkes when posting pictures of your face online, fellas.

Looks like Spain is still trying to revive this but so far it’s a proposal to start a discussion on whether it should be introduced, so still far from actually becoming law. Like I said, keeps haunting us every now and then.

November 17, 2021

Thankfully outdated but keeps coming back to the parliament/commission every now and then. Someone should just kill it already, I mean it’s pretty obvious it’s in direct contradiction with Article 7 of the Fundamental Rights Charter of the EU

now that the government separated the UK from the EU they should put propellers up their asses and push their pathetic island between russia and china if they wanna pass laws like that

Fine is just the warning. Noncompliance can get the company kicked out of France/EU.

These days yes, which is a shame. But it was used primarily as payment before the financebros caught wind of it.

not certain if i understand your comment correctly but crypto has been used primarily as a form of payment for years before the recent boom. not for groceries or other “real life” stuff, sure, but online people did start to warm up to cryptocurrencies as a payment option.

as long as they’re not treated in here like investments but rather private ways of payment i say crypto live

Until we stop the practice of drawing imaginary lines on the planet and regulating which side each person is allowed to be on, nearly every travelers and pretty much all the boarder control apparatus is going to want to spend as little time and money on one another as possible.

Amen to that

They could eventually cross reference the exits to arrivals

Why isn’t a passport enough for that? Each one has a unique ID number, why not use that as reference but instead rely on privacy-invasive biometric data collection? You can just tap your passport on a scanner and it’ll read the machine readable part on both arrival and departure, then have facial recognition/fingerprints be verified if you wanna be 100% sure the passport holder is who they say they are. Many e-passports have this data embedded inside them on a chip, thought that was the whole point.

What the hell do these guys get out of it? Does someone at CBP jerk off to thinking about the amounts of personal data they collect? How do they use it? Or is it just a database of people’s data “in case we need it in the future :3”? wtf…

Not even leaked, just declassified. It’s basically a press statement saying “oh we’re chill now please store your data in the US”

“Private” and “email” should really not appear in the same sentence. The email protocol was not designed with privacy in mind, so any company offering you a “private” email service is simply pandering to the privacy-conscious crowd. Yes, some may promise to store your messages with “zero access encryption” and end-to-end encrypt messages between users of the same service but unless you’re only messaging those users (not gonna happen) copies of all your messages will be hanging around on much less secure/private servers.

Tutanota, Protonmail and Lavabit are currently the most known services promising private email (I have personally opted for Protonmail because it’s free and does not require invites) but you’re making a mistake if you want to use email for any sort of private or confidential communication. Use mail to create an account on with a service designed with privacy in mind, sure, but don’t try and twist email into something that it isn’t - you will regret it.

My general philosophy with email is to use a service which would go out of business if it was found out that they’ve been giving 3rd parties access to your messages and even then don’t store anything sensitive on mail. The ones mentioned above will do fine for that.

They will… when they finally get invented. For now though, law enforcement will have to do annoying things like “following the word of law” and convincing judges who clearly do not understand the national security implications of kids going to the wrong school to give them warrants.

unsure if this is what you’re looking for but https://plaintextsports.com/

I wouldn’t go so far as to call it “terrible for privacy” but yeah, that is a flaw.

The fediverse caught regulators on the back foot, as new tech tends to do. Yes, legally speaking they admins should anonymize or delete the modlogs and comments/posts, but is it technically possible on lemmy considering content is distributed across multiple instances? No idea. Your best bet is to email the administrators of your home instance. Also mind GDPR rights only apply to you if you’re a citizen of the EU.

I am not a lawyer, but I am very sure that is a violation of the GDPR and highly illegal.

Sadly not. GDPR mandates that user content be deleted or anonymized and replacing your username with “Deleted User” seems to satisfy this requirement, even if everybody knows it’s you who sent them. FWIW Reddit doesn’t delete your comments either, but at least they don’t prevent you from deleting them via a script.