governments ignore the law when it's convenient for them, citing national security. you should ignore governments when it's convenient for you.
https://www.politico.eu/article/data-retention-europe-mass-surveillance/
Improved EC inside! Starting with release 1.9 of the EC firmware we made a couple of changes for the Librem 14. Here is a detailed post by Purism CTO, Nicole Faerber.
It wasn't until Nicole started writing about her work on Librem EC that I realized just how much the embedded controller is responsible for on modern computers, and therefore how important it is that it runs open firmware.
yes just be responsible and law-abiding and provide your full name and address and DOB to the state they will safeguard it and take care of you and everything will be fine
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/30/california-gun-owners-data-breach
Things that exist in Europe in just as great of numbers as the US:
* Pro-lifers
* Religious people
* People who hate trans people
* People who think queer people should just be quiet
* People who really believe giving up freedom can make them safer
* CCTV (actually, more)
* Doctors who gatekeep the fuck out of everything
* Medical insurance (yes, really!)
* Shitty infrastructure (though their trains are better, a lot of public transit is busses now...)
* Poor people
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