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   Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 (pojntfx@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2026 20:11:08 JST Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅

   E2EE just jumped from "relevant" to "w/o it, you can't really provide a service to someone in good conscience in this country" overnight

   Making me seriously reconsider where (and whether) to host my Nextcloud next

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     Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 (pojntfx@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2026 20:11:07 JST Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅

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     A storm of spy bills, wrapped in everything from "saving the children" to "securing digital ID systems" to "verifying real humans" unlike anything we've seen before is brewing in every remaining democracy on earth and nothing seems to be able to stop it

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     Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 (pojntfx@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2026 20:11:08 JST Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅

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     I don't know how to explain to people that usually, metadata is what people base their worst decisions on. People kill based on metadata. People murder based on "x talked to y". Governments round up people based on immutable markers, all of which are just metadata.

     Christine Lemmer-Webber repeated this.