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It's not news and since the cloud act, it should be obvious. Also, it means impossibility to respect GDPR so I am really angered by the lazyness of EU companies considering the US like an ally, and EU not applying GDPR to fine all USA companies into oblivion
The point is that if an American company has servers in EU, they have to give access to the US government even when the physical hosting is in Europe
Yes, and that’s a list of European owned hosting companies, not servers in Europe
France also has black boxes. Don't pick France or the UK. Netherlands, Sweden, Romania and Switzerland (I know) are good European choices. Also Germany but they're already the other half of reddit let's not put all our data centers in Berlin.
I’m in the US and I don’t even want a US email provider for the surveillance concerns alone.
Protonmail, servers in Switzerland. Encrypted so that even proton doesn't have the key. The only downer is if you forget your login info and need to do a full account reset you also lose your encryption key as a new one is generated and old emails are unretrievable.
Good in case of attempted account take over
Classic Swiss behavior tbh
Is there more on this?
What is this in reference to? I'm not seeing anything
I do recall users talking about how they need to get tankies deported around the time the ICE budget passed, so this isn't even unreal.
Has this threat actually been said out loud?
Another reason to move away from all the US based fediverse instances. Last i checked lemmy.world is US based and so are many others of the top servers.
When did you last check? I thought Lemmy.world was Netherlands-based
Lemmy.world is 100% hosted in Europe. Of course authoritarian groups left and right fantasize about it being hosted in the US for different reasons. Generally when their extreme views are moderated. However those groups also have a lot of control and resources to spread misinformation. Not to mention experience. So I don't find it surprising that a lot of people don't realize it's not.
I checked the location through fedidb.org a while ago and it said US, but i guess that was because of cloudflare then.
Yes. Any sort of automated scraping needs to be double checked. It's generally fine. But for things behind distributor services like cloudflare Etc. The IP return is going to say more about the person connecting to it than the people behind it.
Quick addendum though. Cloud flare and AWS however are both in the United States if I'm not mistaken. And still vulnerable to being compromised by our fascist Administration. But the.world server itself is fine.
There was also a growing fear that the Dubvee admin could've been presecuted for the data that was hosted on their server.