The folks over at Tuta interviewed Patrick Breyer about this yesterday and his explanation of Chat Control is downright sinister. Link here: https://youtu.be/wSEI-dg3Hpo

Let's keep spreading the word about this, the whole Chat Control debate seems to be ignored right now in the media.

> Let's keep spreading the word about this, the whole Chat Control debate seems to be ignored right now in the media.

Maybe it is not purely by chance that the EU is dealing with this topic during the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2024 ? ;)

99.99999% not a coincident. These far reaching proposals almost always have critical stages when the public is concerned by something else.

Shit, I never thought about that

Ah heck yes! This was a great part of elementary school!

This is something that I never understood with their "oh you are safe in Switzerland" bs. If the court presents them w/ a warrant they have to comply. There is no magically safe data haven and it isn't honest to pretend that they are one.

Switzerland does have strict laws on the topic. Data requests are only honoured for cases which are a crime both under the foreign country's law and under Swiss law.

If you live in a country where homosexuality is illegal, and your local government is chasing you because of this, a Swiss company won't comply with data requests, and a Swiss judge has no reason to honour any data request.

If your local government is chasing you because of something that is recognised as a crime in Switzerland, then they will disclose data to foreign authorities.

Funny thing this is how Algeria try to get info from Facebook about dissidents and journalists they label them as terrorists and Facebook will comply.

Knowing this, couldn't the foreign country forge the case to look like something that's also illegal in Switzerland?

You can create anonymous accounts with Tuta through Tor and they don't ask for a phone number or contact email address. They even made a tutorial video on YouTube a few weeks ago for how to do it: https://youtu.be/oXv3llPIfvo

If you continued using the account only through Tor, there wouldn't be any traceable info.

I'm not a lawyer, but doesn't GDPR and No-Log contradict each other.

Nope. What’s funny is it’s actually easier to be GDPR compliant if you keep no logs.

For a custom domain, Tuta is offering unlimited aliases for 3 bucks a month. That's not too bad and there are a slew of other features.

I will be switching over to Tuta. Their new subscriptions let you setup unlimited aliases if you are using a custom domain. So, I'll be able to keep all my same email addresses and still have strong encryption.