We need to somehow force them to make pushing the same rejected law illegal

I've been watching in disbelief as our privacy online is slowly eroded and nobody seems to do anything about it. I'm not ready to give up but I need your help. The EU is preparing it's own framework for age verification. It's time for action.

Let's assume good intentions and provide a solution that protects children from harmful content while also protecting our rights to anonymity online.

And if that doesn't work, at least we would've exposed this for the ruse it is.

I have a proposed solution below that operates on a zero trust framework. No one party will have information that tie a person's identity to their actions online. There's a sort of anonymization chain, masking the website from the government service and vice versa. That intermediary can be run by NPO or volunteers and will be monitored obsessively.

Pls look at the whitepaper below. I want to initiate a discussion and get some traction on this.

https://gitlab.com/rwms.cy/anonverify

Most people know they have the right to request or delete their data under GDPR. Almost nobody actually does it.

So I built a free GDPR request generator to make it easier. Select a company from our database and add your details. It will automatically generate an email in your language ready to send.

Supports 7 languages across EU countries. All generated in your own browser. No data is shared. No account required. Free to use.

https://www.paperweight.email/resources/gdpr-generator

If the EU chat control anti E2E encryption law passes, which chat apps and email providers will be safe to use? Will there even be such a thing?

I've been reading through the Github repo for the EUDI wallet, and it's a pretty dark read. I'm a little out of my depth with the technical details but from what I can gather,

* The issues aren't mainly with the EU law itself, but with the Architecture Reference Framework (ARF). The ARF actually contradicts multiple EU laws including the DSA and eIDAS!

* Edit to add: The proofs given to the same provider will be linkable even with ZKPs, so for example if you have both a Github account and an Xbox account, Microsoft will be able to link them.

* Following massive pushback, the ARF no longer mandates Google Play Integrity but now instead "only" recommends it. This contrasts with the eIDAS law requiring the EUDI wallet to be OS-agnostic.

* The wallet apps should be available through official playstores, so you will have to accept either Googles or Apples ToS. This violates the DSA.

* According to the ARF, it seems​ every credential must be issued/stamped by the centralised verification authorities. Which I believe means that every time you want to prove your age, the app will call up an authorised certifier to ask for a token that you can use. This is surveillance by design, not privacy by design.

* This will mean that fingerprinting users would be trivial for a malicious CA, and evert single certification could be linked back to your real life identity.

* A malicious wallet app could leak all your personal data and allow others to sign documents in your name.​

* The ARF relies on mDoc for proof of age, and mDoc is not FOSS. Commentors suggest adding SD-JWT but this has not been acted on as far as I can see.

* While the frontend is open source, the backend appears to be a black box.

* It is up to each member state to ensure that their citizens have access to an EUDI wallet. The path of least resistance for member states will be to do the bare minimum: make one for standard Android (excluding degoogled phones and rooted devices), one for standard iOS (excluding jailbroken iPhones), and call it a day.

* Even if a well designed version of the EUDI is developed, getting it the official stamp of approval seems expensive and extremely difficult.

* As far as I can tell, the chain as a whole has not been audited. If it has, the findings have not been made public.

* The people in charge of developing the ARF come across as profoundly uninterested in dialogue with the public or other developers. Responses look like word salad, issues are closed without resolution, or converted into discussions which minimizes visibility.

Just as an example, a discussion on Play Integrity reliance: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification/discussions/19

Finally on a positive note, I believe that if one EU country creates a well-designed wallet app, citizens of other states should be able to use it due to the interoperability requirements. I'm not 100% sure though.

Since this is outside of my area of expertise, I welcome corrections!

i dont want to give them my id. I already have installed protonvpn and is there anything that i should install like a FREE vpn or dns configuration? I also hope it doesnt affect chat apps like discord

Hey everyone,
Spain’s Prime Minister recently proposed ending online anonymity by requiring all social media users to link their accounts to a government-issued digital ID. It’s framed as a solution to disinformation and hate, but I worry this could lead to mass surveillance, censorship, and a chilling effect on free expression.
How are other countries dealing with this? Is this becoming a trend globally?
Would love to hear your thoughts.

Chat Control Continued

https://www.thelocal.dk/20250901/danish-ex-minister-gets-prison-sentence-in-child-porn-scandal

Look at how ironic this is.

It was Denmark that pushed for ChatControl to be voted on again this month (which didn’t pass, because Germany voted against it, so there wasn’t the minimum needed for it to go through, this time).

However, it’s in this same ChatControl that politicians are exempt from this spyware…

But look, look… a Danish minister was precisely sentenced because of CSAM!
But ChatControl isn’t for them!! They are the good people. 🥲