r/europrivacy

Hi everyone,

Between Google Play Integrity API lockdowns, Apple App Attest, and upcoming eID/age-verification mandates, alternative and privacy-focused operating systems (like GrapheneOS, LineageOS, and Linux on mobile) are being systematically locked out of banking, public portals, and everyday apps.

Rather than watching vendor lock-in get worse, I am organizing a European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) working title: "My Device, My OS" to push binding EU legislation for Device Neutrality and Open Attestation.

What we aim to achieve:

• Mandate Open Attestation Standards: Require services operating in the EU to support open, vendor-neutral hardware attestation rather than relying exclusively on proprietary gatekeeper APIs (Google/Apple).
• Ban Device/OS Discrimination: Prevent public services, digital ID wallets, and essential commercial apps from arbitrarily blocking users solely for running independent or de-Googled operating systems.
• Protect Hardware Sovereignty: Enshrine the legal right of consumers to install and run the operating system of their choice without losing access to the digital single market.

Before submitting it we need 7 persons from 7 different countries in the EU to sign the draft

Join the Matrix room to discuss, collaborate on the draft, and coordinate next steps:
👉 #my-device-my-os:pollorebozado.com

Feedback, technical insights, and EU organizers are all welcome!

The gist: don't just switch providers, get you own domain.

Great journalism by The Guardian! Do you think any of these made up sources are used in the EU discussions about social media bans as well?

Age verification and privacy

hey everyone, I just presented this at the DEF CON security conference.

If you had the connective signing extension installed previously then you were likely vulnerable to this, although I don’t know if it was being exploited.

Alright, I know. I am an idiot

I logged into reddit and it asked me to verify my age. Tried it with a youtube video- didnt work. Gave up at some point and just did it myself because I thought: Reddit's got a selfie of me already anyways so at this point.. doesnt matter. While it is still loading the you finished the verification page i notice the persona logo at the bottom and remember who that company is.

Since I got premium anxiety, I am panicking now.

As a european, what can I do to get this deleted? I already wrote an email to persona requesting them to delete all data they might have collected of me.

Their privacy policy states that they immediately delete any biometric data of your face, how true is that?

And after I get it all deleted to the best of my ability, is it time to abandon my email adress and all accounts and just make new ones?

I want to make it extremely clear to everyone what Chat Control 2.0 would do, since it still seems like there’s confusion about this topic at large.

As opposed to scanning messages after they’re sent, they’d scan the messages before they’re sent, that way they cannot be encrypted.

This means they’d scan literally everything on your phone, laptop, computer, etc. It’s not just something that big companies and providers do. It’s not something you can get away from by changing your OS, getting rid of all the bloatware, etc., because it’s the hardware that allows them to do this.

The tech and infrastructure for this kind of stuff exists. It’s only done in specific targeted contexts like on terrorists. Now, if CC2.0 passes, then it’s done on everyone.

To be clear, every single phone, PC, or laptop has chips that allow them to do it. There is no opting out.

I downloaded a vpn and put it in netherlands but Reddit keeps asking me to verify my age with persona.

Hello, I'm not sure if this is the right subreddit. I recently got accepted to DataAnnotation as a Polish citizen. Now, they're asking me to verify my identity through Persona. Normally I wouldn't be this suspicious, I understand that my employer needs to verify that I am a real person. However, I've been reading opinions on Persona and they're 50/50, some say it's safe, others recommend to avoid. I am especially curious how it works for a European citizen. Does anyone know if it's safe, or should I actually just scratch it and try to find something else? Thank you in advance.