Attention Canadians, French people, and anyone outside the United States: Microsoft says your country's data protection laws are void and null if the US government says so. Microsoft will turn over any and all information about you to the US government at that government's request no matter what your country's laws say. Time to stop using Microsoft if you value your own privacy and your nation's sovereignty.
And hey, fellow Americans: time for you to stop using Microsoft, too, and start putting your data overseas in the servers of non-American countries. The only way any of us are going to protect our privacy is to have as little to do with our own country as is possible, and in the digital realm, there's actually a lot we can do. My Mastodon server is not the US. My personal server and email is not in the US. My company email is not in the US. I don't use Google or Meta at all, and the only thing I "use" Microsoft for is Visual Studio, which I'm even moving away from now that I'm getting out of programming for good.
Take back your privacy by boycotting the companies willing to spy on you, either for their own profit or for the corrupt, fascist American government.
#Microsoft #Canada #France #UnitedStates #USA #privacy #DataPrivacy
Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty - Digital Journal
Microsoft representative says US CLOUD Act comes before other country's sovereignty.Alexander Rudolph (Digital Journal Inc)
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in reply to Moriel 🏳️⚧️ • • •Moriel 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Vee • • •@VeroniqueB99
You're right, of course. For my part i have worked in computers for decades, so i have a lot of skill in this area, but i also learned to distrust these companies decades ago and never let myself become dependent on them in the first place, so it's been easy for me to avoid them. At the same time, i don't know that i could give anyone good advice on how to move away from the big corps for the very that very reason - i have never really used them in the first place, so i don't really have any clue how other people make use of things like Google and Facebook, so how could i possibly give advice on switching to something else? I don't really know what needs they fill for people or how people use them.
i need to think on this.
Vee
in reply to Moriel 🏳️⚧️ • • •Beardy Star Stuff 🏴🌹🇵🇸
in reply to Moriel 🏳️⚧️ • • •@VeroniqueB99 My suggestion is that we reach out to people in our lives and communities and offer direct assistance. Friends, family folk, neighbors, co-workers. Make it known you are willing to help. Organize and lead classes or workshops at your local library. Organize a "Security and Privacy in Computing Working Group" lol just spitballing the name there... but, you know, meetup twice a month as a kind of ongoing workshop.
#Computing #Privacy #Cloud #Microsoft #FreeSoftware #Google
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in reply to Beardy Star Stuff 🏴🌹🇵🇸 • • •Debby ⁂📎🐧
in reply to Moriel 🏳️⚧️ • • •Also Microsoft: ‘Why won’t you trust us?
#DataPrivacy #Privacy #SelfHosted #PrivacyMatters #DigitalIndependence
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in reply to Moriel 🏳️⚧️ • • •Fat_Farang
in reply to Justin Derrick • • •Kevin Smith
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