• sous-merde@lemmy.ml
    12·
    9 hours ago

    State surveillance begins when protecting privacy is treated as a suspect act.
    Preventing crimes apparently necessitates to forbid any resistance to surveillance.
    So much for France/Europe being a defender of (digital )rights.

  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
    1172·
    6 hours ago

    Just for convenience (since it’s hard to read the screenshot on a phone), here’s the text:

    GrapheneOS is being heavily targeted by the French state because we provide highly secure devices and won’t include backdoors for law enforcement access. They’re conflating us with companies selling closed source products using portions of our code. Both French state media and corporate media are publishing many stories attacking the GrapheneOS project based on false and unsubstantiated claims from French law enforcement. They’ve made a clear threat to seize our servers and arrest our developers if we do not cooperate by adding backdoors. Due to this, we’re leaving France and leaving French service providers including OVH. We need substantial help from the community to push back against this across platforms. People malicious towards us are also using it as an opportunity to spread libel/harassment content targeting our team, raid our chat rooms and much more. /e/ and iodéOS are both based in France, and are both actively attacking GrapheneOS. /e/ receives substantial government funding. Both are extremely non-private and secure which is why France is targeting us while those get government funding. We need a lot more help than usual and we’re sending our the first ever notification to everyone on the sewer because this is a particularly bad situation. If people help us, it will enable us to focus more on development again including releasing experimental Pixel 10 releases very soon.

  • leftascenter@jlai.lu
    22·
    15 hours ago

    From France: news outlets began parroting government stating GrapheneOS is used by narcos.

    GrapheneOS reacted strongly.

    However, France is on a very shitty auth-right trend (including arresting Telegram founder) so the reaction is very understandable.

    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
      13·
      13 hours ago

      France and the rest of Europe… sigh Fuck Fascists. That includes our German government, full of selfish fuckheads who further fortify the surveillance state.

      • nforminvasion@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 hours ago

        It’s just capitalism reaching it’s end stages. Fascism arises either when capitalism is threatened or when it has eaten itself and its contradictions become too great for liberal “democracy” to ignore.

        With climate change, refugees from wars and disasters, micro plastics and other pollutants, the waning of social programs, job market collapse across the world, collapsing birth rates, inflation, energy, and a hundred other things, capitalism is reaching its end stage.

        There really are only a few options from here. And honestly I only see two major ones: either the rich win and we have literal slavery world wide (not wage slavery, actual no pay, no benefits, no nothing slavery) held up by hyper surveillance and armed bots/drones, or we break capitalism and move onto something better.

  • foremanguy@lemmy.ml
    252·
    15 hours ago

    Not to protect /e/os and Iode (neither to promote the french laws), but I would like to have real source of what’s happening, what /e/os and idoe didn’t do right, when they conveyed fakes about graphene…

    Not to say but the graphene community (mainly his leader) is always having drama with some people. So real proofs and explanations would be greatly appreciated. Wouldn’t like to say black or white to this subject and would like to nuance the post

  • HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca
    562·
    17 hours ago

    If the state can’t protect its people from the damage that technology and capitalism can do, they have no right to prevent people from protecting themselves.

    Fix climate change. Tax billionaires. Address the housing crisis. Then we can talk about taking away privacy in the name of upholding the law.