With the Chat Control bill entering its final stage, the EU Council has been busy thinking about what a new data retention framework could look like.
How do we persuade our elected politicians to stop trying to speedrun authoritarianism and fascism?
By liberal application of the guillotine
Crowd Bribing? I don’t know anymore.
Crucially, the document reveals that EU governments see metadata – specifically traffic and location history – as the most vital tool for law enforcement.
Ah, yes. Store data at the risk of it being hacked or used by companies in order to protect the people from themselves.
I’m at a loss as to what to do should Mullvad fall to this shit. I could try something self hostable but I’m really not that skilled with that kind of thing.
Any suggestions?
Mullvad will need to move to a new country with a different legislation. iVPN HQ is based on Gibraltar to escape German legislation.
Self host a VPN?
Self host a VPN is useless
Not always
For example, if you dont want to Expose your network but want to access it
Related meme:
Edit: that was a question aimed at the commenter, not a suggestion since they mentioned that
Mullvad is already a honeypot
I’m not sure if this changes anything for ones like airvpn but if so we’ll just fight back with stuff like Tor, I guess
/usr/bin/retain-logs --days-to-keep 365 > /dev/null 2>&1logn’t
A self hosted vpn on a vps droplet would have the same issue as a vpn provider, no? They’d (the vps provider) would have logs of the adresses you’ve connected to etc.
