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   Miguel Afonso Caetano (remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 22:55:25 JST Miguel Afonso Caetano

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   "It’s no coincidence that a majority of jurisdictionally aware US data preservation efforts are listing ProtonMail accounts as their contact info. Proton is a Swiss company offering services comparable to Gmail, Google Drive and Docs, as well as having an end-to-end encrypted platform, a password manager, backup storage, photos, and a VPN. Proton explains in a March 2023 blog post that Swiss law and encryption protects Proton’s users from abortion-related data requests, and details the difference between data requests they receive and those sent to Facebook and Google.

   For people who prefer globally accurate maps free of Trump Sharpie defacements, and the Gulf of Mexico keeping its name, check out MagicEarth, TomTom AmiGO, HERE WeGo (all Netherlands-based) or OpenStreetMap (global contributors). Check out Vivaldi (Norway) for browsing, and Qwant (France) or Startpage (Netherlands) for a search engine. IONOS (Germany) is a Squarespace/Wix alternative, Pixelfed (Canada) can stand in for Instagram. StoryGraph (UK) for Goodreads. Affinity (UK/AU) or Canva (AU) can replace Adobe products, and Kobo (Canada/Japan) for an ebook reader.

   Check out Plex or Jellyfin for music and video, Nextcloud for file storage and syncing, LibreOffice for an office suite, Affinity Suite to replace Adobe, SearXNG for search—all based outside the US. Codeberg (EU) is basically an open source, privacy-forward, community-run Github; one user has a handy Linux-Is-Best/Outside_Us_Jurisdiction listing for digital service providers. If you’re looking for a non-US Starlink alternative, Eutelsat may have you covered."

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     Miguel Afonso Caetano (remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 22:55:26 JST Miguel Afonso Caetano

     "Law enforcement requests for user data from Apple, Google, and Meta mean that these companies can decide whether government authorities have access to your personal information, including location data. This means the companies with the most insight into our lives, movements, and communications are frontline arbiters of our constitutional rights and the rights of non-US citizens—a fact some are likely feeling more acutely now than ever.

     Collaboration between Big Tech and the Trump administration began before Donald Trump’s swearing-in on January 20. Amazon, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Uber each gave $1 million to Trump’s inauguration. Separately, in personal donations, so did Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Apple’s Tim Cook.

     Americans concerned about the Trump administration and Silicon Valley’s embrace of it, may consider becoming a “digital expat”—moving your digital life off of US-based systems. Meanwhile, Europeans are starting to see US data services as “no longer safe” for businesses, governments, and societies.

     Here’s a brief rundown of the privacy, security, and civil liberties issues related to the use of US-based digital services that suddenly feel more urgent—and what to do about it."

     https://www.wired.com/story/trump-era-digital-expat/

     #USA #Trump #BigTech #Privacy #CyberSecurity #DataProtection

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