Pro humans knowing where the controls are and how to use them. Anti systems deployed to replace human judgement and nuance.
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🛬 Plane lands. Flight mode off.
💬 “Welcome to Italy! Use your mobile plan just like at home.”
8 years of free EU roaming – we've come a long way:
→ 2000s: €0.50–€1/min calls
→ 2007: roaming caps
→ 2017: the end of roaming charges
→ 2022: the improved “Roam like at home” pack extended to 2032, bringing:
🌐 Fast 5G access across the EU
💰 Protection from unexpected charges
🆘 Better access to emergency services
Fair for operators. Free for you.
We are asking the UK government to confirm the existence of the TCN to allow public discussion, scrutiny and accountability of these actions.
No democracy should ever allow for decisions that have onerous consequences for billions of people to be taken in secret.
A month ago, we found out via The Washington Post that the UK government has used its Powers to issue a notice to Apple to hand over encrypted iCloud data, threatening the privacy and security of users all over the world.
This notice was via a TCN, and they represent a dangerous, disproportionate and intrusive surveillance power available to the government under the current UK surveillance regime.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/apple-encryption-backdoor-uk/
🆕 We’re demanding transparency on the UK government’s ‘Technical Capability Notices’ (TCN) - a secret power that gives itself the right to issue secret orders to any company, undermining the security of everyone across the world.
We believe the Government's position of refusing to confirm or deny the existence of the Technical Capability Notice or acknowledge Apple's appeal is untenable and violates principles of transparency and accountability.
I will not stop advocating for more transparency with this situation through all avenues I have available to me. I will not stop advocating for others who have had their accounts just as unceremoniously banned.
I will not be transferring ownership of the Pods plugins back into my account at this time. I no longer trust that my account will remain activated and that normal procedures will be followed in the future. They will remain in the safe and capable care of one of our contributors.
Today my WordPress.org account was disabled unexpectedly. I did not request that and I have received no communications with reasoning ahead of time or at the time of that being disabled (like most people who were deactivated on Slack or .org disabled).
This puts the @pods project at risk on .org since we've used the security best-practice of having release confirmations enabled on the Pods plugins on .org since they added that feature. To confirm a release, you must log into .org
🛬 Plane lands. Flight mode off.
💬 “Welcome to Italy! Use your mobile plan just like at home.”
8 years of free EU roaming – we've come a long way:
→ 2000s: €0.50–€1/min calls
→ 2007: roaming caps
→ 2017: the end of roaming charges
→ 2022: the improved “Roam like at home” pack extended to 2032, bringing:
🌐 Fast 5G access across the EU
💰 Protection from unexpected charges
🆘 Better access to emergency services
Fair for operators. Free for you.
@reindeerphoto
As much as I believe the current system has to change ... could you please tell (1) what's currently *corrupt* and (2) how using credit cards prohibits data collection?
@reindeerphoto
Your definition of "corrupt" seems to be a bit off.
And as much as I'd like not to need 10 different RFID cards for different providers, none of those track me between different chargers. You don't have to use those apps in daily use.
The main problem is that chargers are classified as part of the service and not of the infrastructure.
One of the most important achievement of the EC/EU so far. I wish it would be that "easy" to solve the EU railway infrastructure issues.
I do and I get free roaming in 27 addotional countries outside the EU as well.
10 out of the 15 UK providers provide free roaming in the EU though some of the cheapest ones limit data to 5Gb without a small fee.
You could consider switching to a proveder that doesnt't rip you off.
@EUCommission Roaming in the EU is brilliant! It works flawlessly for me.
I would love to see the EU become a common market for digital content - no geographic restrictions within the EU.
@EUCommission "Fast 5G access across the EU"??!!
You haven't been to rural parts of Germany lately, have you? 😩
Those roaming regulations are great and I love them! I was in France when SMS roaming regulations came into force. Had to pay 39ct per text when I arrived. When I left, it was down to ~9 cents.
Buuut I still have a question:
When will there be compulsory #IPv6 support in data roaming? There are several networks that turn off #IPv6 while roaming. Some even lack #IPv6 entirely.
My mail server is #IPv6only which means that I don't have access to my e-mails while roaming!
Where should I complain if it doesn't work that way?
Vodafone doesn't provide support
@BNetzA doesn't care
European Commission
Privacy International
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Mark Nottingham
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SKC 🏳️🌈
Kevin Karhan 
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Marco
Frieke
G 🇮🇹
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Thomas Lee ✅ 
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Snow
Peter Krefting
Karsten
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Christof Damian 💙💛
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Zzepish
Thomas Schäfers/plane/train/ though@EUCommission yep. This is absolutely amazing.
The fun thing is when watching US phone reviews, and they state the great thing is that when you travel abroad, you can buy cheap esim data and use that. But thats not really needed when you are from a EU country and staying within the EU
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