@ProtonMail Why did proton cave to the US Government with turning over user data so basically no difference between you and Google except security you still report so what's the difference
Appreciate the 2 cents @DeOpenSourceGuy
But here is the thing, if accounts were flagged for something, that something should be stated in writing before suspension. Not assumed. Not discovered after the fact.
Article 2 Section 8 of their own bylaws requires 15 days written notice and an appropriate hearing before any suspension regardless of the reason.
You can read the full bylaws here;
https://t.co/7p3NGMByYO
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🚨🇪🇺 The European Commission is about to steal your search history in one of the largest forced data grabs in the history of the open internet, and almost nobody is talking about it.
The scope is staggering:
🔴 Every query you type
🔴 Every voice and photo search
🔴 Every autocomplete you accept
🔴 Your language, your device
🔴 Your country pinned to a ~3km² grid
🔴 Every result you saw, every link you hovered
🔴 Every click and scroll
🔴 The full chronological order of your search sessions
Meaning the European Union now knows your:
🔴 Health symptoms
🔴 Pregnancy
🔴 Sexual orientation
🔴 Political views
🔴 Religious beliefs
🔴 Financial distress
🔴 Legal trouble
🔴 Addictions
🔴 Affairs
Under the proposed measures for DMA Article 6(11), Google would be ordered to ship the daily search behaviour of hundreds of millions of Europeans to multiple third parties through a daily API feed. Any approved "online search engine," AI chatbots included, would get five years of access.
The things people only ever type when they think no one is watching. All of it now scheduled to flow daily into an open-ended list of third parties scattered across the European Union.
Brussels promises "anonymisation." The reality is a thin technical veneer that has been broken in academic literature again and again for over a decade. Search behaviour is a fingerprint. Stripping a name does not change that.
Mass data leaks become inevitable. Every new beneficiary is a new attack surface, and every annual audit is a year of silent exposure between checks. The 2025 Discord vendor breach already showed how fast 70,000 government IDs can leak through a single weak link. Now imagine that link holding Europe's search history.
Surveillance without consent becomes the default. Hundreds of millions of EU citizens never agreed to have their queries packaged and shipped to companies they have never heard of. The legal fiction of "anonymisation" cannot manufacture consent that was never given.
Behavioural search data is a goldmine for phishing, blackmail, social engineering, and corporate espionage.
Foreign intelligence services get a back door without effort. They do not need to breach Google. They only need to compromise the weakest name on the beneficiary list. One insolvent startup. One compromised contractor. One approved entity quietly acquired by a hostile state.
In the name of "competition," the EU is about to manufacture a permanent, distributed, daily-refreshed copy of Europe's collective search history. A surveillance dataset Brussels itself would never approve if any other government tried to build it.
The public consultation closes Friday, May 1, 2026 at 23:59 CEST. The final binding decision lands July 27, 2026.
After that, the door does not close again.
Tag your MEPs! File a response! Make noise!
@alxaex They want to spend $3.3 million in a bear market on 1 event after we've already taken hundreds of millions of ADA out of the treasury! the foundation got over 600 million Ada at inception and a bunch of BTC why have they not been good stewards with their money?
@alxaex How many transactions have been put on chain as a result of that booth? How many business deals were cut? Any new protocols coming to cardano because of this booth. Or how about VC'S entering the ecosystem because of what they learn there! Poof of on boarding right.... I bet 0
@alxaex This points to snek and tapdano tapdano has 176 followers and has snek paid back that million Ada loan this is just more evidence of the contrary it is not supporting your narrative but ours! And you totally go all sober the insane amount that they want to spend in a bear market
@alxaex Instead of $3.3m for the summit you can get a £100k booth at token 2049, do a platinum sponsor for $200k, giving you 8 free tickets for the team.
Add $30k to cover the teams expenses and there you have it.
Ten times less expensive than the summit.
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BREAKING: We The People demand ACCOUNTABILITY!
Dear Mr. @POTUS,
I know you are listening to We the People. This message is sent on behalf of a very frustrated 79 million Americans who voted for you and millions more who refuse to be ignored.
Therefore, we are designating
2026 as
THE YEAR OF
ACCOUNTABILITY!
Why now?
Because the country is at a breaking point.
Our freedoms are being chipped away in plain sight.
Our government has grown bloated, arrogant, and unaccountable.
Public trust has not merely declined; it has been obliterated.
Power has been stripped from citizens and hoarded by bureaucrats, agencies, and unelected elites.
Those who call themselves leaders protect each other while the American people pay the price.
Civic duty has vanished from classrooms, replaced by obedience and ideology.
The family, once the backbone of this nation, has been systematically weakened and devalued.
Enough is Enough!
At its core, this is not partisan.
All Americans are demanding ACCOUNTABILITY.
We the People reject the lies, the gaslighting, the censorship, and the deliberate erosion of our lived reality over the past decade.
We remember what was done.
We know who did it.
We are no longer willing to move on without consequences.
The message is unmistakable and unstoppable.
Americans demand ACCOUNTABILITY.
So Mr. @POTUS, the question for you to answer is simple.
Will you stand with We The People or will you protect the system that failed us?
Make 2026 the year of ACCOUNTABILITY.
We will stand with you through thick and thin like we always have, but you must respect our wishes.
If you don’t, as our founders warned, the deep state concentration of power in government will lead to greater corruption and eventual tyranny.
And your legacy in history will be tarnished beyond repair.
Respectfully,
1 of the 79 million voters
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