🇬🇧 UK & 🇦🇺 Australia have the worst anti-encryption laws among democratic countries.
🇨🇦 Canada risks joining them with Bill C-2.
🇺🇸 US still relies on secret orders under FISA & CLOUD Act.
🇨🇭 Switzerland is no longer the privacy paradise it was claimed to be.

#Encryption is under attack worldwide. Our new global overview shows why Europe remains the best place for encrypted services.

➡️ Check the global overview:
https://tuta.com/blog/encryption-legislation-global-status

#PrivacyMatters

Your chat profile/identity: a tar file.

Your social web app: a zip file.

https://chatmail.at and https://webxdc.org are spearheading ever new and more fun ways to deny power to servers and platform billionaires.

Unlike classic email servers, #chatmail relays do not store user identities which solely live on end-user devices.There also is no encrypted value on the server like with Proton Mail or Signal. There are only relays, endless federating networks of relays to onboard safely :)

78,3 Prozent der Stimmberechtigten haben sich heute gegen die Einführung einer Erbschaftssteuer ausgesprochen. Nach dem Entscheid bleibt der Eindruck bestehen, dass in der Schweiz weder ein Klassen- noch ein Klimabewusstsein wirklich verankert ist. Der Kommentar von Jan Jirat.

https://www.woz.ch/blog/abstimmungskommentare/2025/11/30/erbschaftssteuer-ein-land-ohne-klassen-und-klimabewusstsein?mtm_campaign=mstdn

Chat Control is back, but slightly changed:

❌ No backdoor of encryption
❌ No forced scanning
🚨 But: Age verification (no anonymity)

The update just quietly passed in the EU Council & now needs to be discussed with the EU Parliament.

👁️Big Techs like #Gmail and #WhatsApp will continue to scan your data.

Will you keep fighting against #ChatControl?

One week ago, the @EUCommission unveiled its #DigitalOmnibus. But here is the thing: the press release doesn’t tell you what this package actually does.

So… we fixed it for them. 👇

Fliegt nicht von Zürich nach Genf: @kho_zh

( https://www.woz.ch/2547/diesseits-von-gut-und-boese/himmels-dreckschleudern/!Y86VRQ6K6FQQ?mtm_campaign=mstdn )

Well, maybe we need to be more clear what we are trying to do: #deltachat apps are a cross-platform private messenger suite, that aims to provide a consistent UX/UI for users with lots of experience using WhatsApp and Signal.

Telegram has good fast UX but is hardly a private messenger (it has a central cleartext database of everyone and everything).

Matrix and XMPP are well-esteemed fellows in federated messaging, but so far didn't grow a WA/Signal-level cross-platform messaging UX.

YMMV

70.000 Euro Spenden in den ersten drei Tagen unserer Spendenkampagne! Ihr seid die beste Community des Cyberraums.

Nun fehlen uns noch 370.000 Euro, um unsere Arbeit fortsetzen zu können wie bisher.

Helft uns dabei, dieses Ziel zu erreichen: https://netzpolitik.org/digitalfights

Von Vereinfachung sprechen, während man einen Kahlschlag plant, und von Werten, wenn man an Wertschöpfung denkt – diese Doppelzüngigkeit kennen wir sonst eigentlich von Populisten und Diktatoren wie Trump oder Putin.

Mein Kommentar zu Plänen der EU-Kommission, für die KI-Industrie den Datenschutz zu schleifen.

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/digitaler-omnibus-auf-crash-kurs-mit-digitalen-grundrechten/