"Article 5 eV, a civil rights group helping to maintain the Tor network, has reported that German police raided the private address where the non-profit was registered.
The authorities came knocking at the Essen-based office on August 16th, 2024, the group said, with armed officers spending nearly two hours in the office. Article 5 eV facilitates Tor network by operating its exit nodes.
“There are obviously still people working in German law enforcement today, who think that harassing a node-operator NGO would somehow lead to the de-anonymization of individual Tor users. At least that is what they claim in the paperwork,” Gero Kühn, the leader of the group, said…"
EU countries are going full on fighting privacy now.
Just makes me want to fight back by helping other people to use Monero, Tor, and other privacy services.
Same.
Monero is not safe, CIA cracked it long time ago
Source? I don’t believe it.
Why else would the US be working so hard to ban it and make it very difficult to obtain?
Then why aren’t they catching more “criminals”? Also, why hasn’t the $600,000 US dollar bounty from the IRS been claimed?
Makes me feel we are two faced. On the one hand, we are inventing laws to protect privacy of eu citizens. And then stuff like this happens. On the other hand: Just fucked up that the people who use the platform for what is was intended for are now in jeopardy for people who want to look at underage kids, get their SO killed, look at kill cams or buy drugs.
What’s a kill cam?
Kind of like the red room they tell you about on Youtube
Are you being intentionally vague?
I think they are referring to videos of people dying.
Thank you for an actual response.
GDPR only applies to big tech apparently
GDPR explicitly exempts government entities. Still, way better than not having it IMO.
Regulating governmental intrusions into privacy would take a completely separate and probably much larger bill.
It would take a revolution honestly
EU countries are going full in fighting to protect privacy right now.
Its a battle and there’s people in the government in both sides. Germany has actually been one of the best Member States in the EU preventing erosion of privacy.
Governments are made up of many different people, frequently with differing goals