This would be cool 20 years ago. Now it’s just a stunt.
Mac@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Damn, this is so cool.
We could have had this in the States too, but, well, you all know.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It shows you are american and not familiar with the EU.
‘privacy friendly’ is a euphemistic PR term, not unlike making the horrible Patriot Act worse and renaming it the ‘Freedom Act’.sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Do you have other examples? I am really curious when they said privacy friendly and ended up snooping.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’ll copy my answer to an EU fanboy:
Never said the rest is safer, doesn’t mean they are ‘privacy friendly’, they aren’t.
It’s quite a leap to go from that to just assuming they’ll secretly and illegally spy on youPlenty of stuff like this or this or this
And they did as much against Pegasus as they do against israel. Some words and recommendations.
22 EU clients, at least, have acquired it. quite a leap to go from that to just assuming they will not spy on you as a collective, more than is already ‘publicly available’. Organisations that spy usually don’t advertise their practices.
miked@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
This will never be possible in the States. We still have areas with no cellular.
Mac@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Surely that’s unrelated to the billions of dollars that the telecom companies stole from the taxpayer after promising to build out infrastructure?
Glitchvid@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Ironically enough there’s basically a private version of this through Comcast turning their rented CPEs into their own unlicensed wifi mesh, they call it WiFi Pass – they at least have the courtesy to give it to you gratis if you’re already paying for residential service.