They’re upset about EU’s privacy laws?

Good. EU is clearly doing something right.

There are already some youtubers linking to their patreon because their content gets demonetized frequently (shiey, gifgas).

I think this could be the way to go. Instead of patreon, liberapay could also be used.

Sorry, edited it to my comment.

Edit2: Maybe it’s not mandatory for now. But it looks suspicious to me.

DNA aswell. I was pretty shocked.

i. Biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris;

https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-22461.pdf

Yeah, that’s right. I guess they’re like “They’ll get court order anyway, so why should we even try to stop 'em”…

Edit: more likely they’re bootlickers of Lord Donald “The Orange” Trump and they probably hope to be in his favor.

Every US based company is pretty much legally obliged to hand over everything, even if they collect data outside of US.

This is nothing new. New is, that this data is now getting abused at large scale.

Sooner or later, I see myself forcing my important contacts to use linux. But indirectly, like, if they want to keep messaging me, they need to switch to a trustworthy OS. Of course I’ll have to verify beforehand if they actually use it.

Hopefully, they keep Threema like it is. But sure, I will watch closely. If they slowly start to enshittify it, I will be gone.

Probably…people love to be the product!

Sounds interesting to me…

So, for EU citizens this means, if they visit US, that EU will also have their DNA, if I’m not wrong?

Well, DNA contains the most sensitive information an individual has. Not only relations. For now, we have limited knowledge what the DNA is able to tell us about how a person looks, what kind of diseases he/she developes, etc… But very soon we will understand it much better and I think we’ll be shocked, what’s possible in the future.

And in that moment I don’t want my DNA to be out there. The possibilities of abuse are far too high in my opinion.

But it also strongly depends on the whole procedure: -> What kind of DNA-profile will be created? STR-profile or SNP-profile? STR = Short Tandem Repeats (less privacy intrusive, less markers) SNP = Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (used for 23andme, much more intrusive, usually > 300000 markers)

The golden-state-killer case shows: You can give your DNA and your cousin in the third degree can be identified (same grand-grand-grandfather) through SNP.

-> Will the sample be taken at the border? If the DNA has to be done directly at the border, who tells me the saliva sample will be disposed after creating the profile? We know US intelligence agencies collect all kinds of things.

But I need to say, I am not an expert in this field, just very cautious when it comes to genetic privacy.

DNA is pretty much privacy endgame. That’s pure madness.

Especially when I think about the relatives, who don’t want to share parts of their DNA. Imagine what intelligence agencies will do with it. This should be illegal, shouldn’t it?

If it’s not going to be used for that, it could still be used as a good paypal alternative.

We must stand together against the orange man.

In this case, the dishwasher is loaded completely fine.

Yeah, good move. Now come to Fediverse.

But what about defederation from malicious/insecure instances? Couldn’t this solve these kind of problems?

Of course, there will still be a risk. But isn’t it a step in the better direction?

But thats a problem with dating-networks in general because of the intimate character. I think if you want to do it, then it should be done in a safer way than tinder. And the security of your instance should be checked today already. The federation could be a safety advantage, because you can choose on your own, where you think it’s the safest.

Cool, didn’t know that one. Maybe it’s a good first step. Since it’s open source, people can work with it and develope it further.