Our startup received GDPR violation “notice”(jitbit.com)

22 points by jitbit 3 years ago | 6 comments

Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe(bbc.co.uk)

307 points by user20180120 2 years ago | 272 comments

I made 20 GDPR deletion requests. 12 were ignored(nikolak.com)

100 points by nikola-k 8 months ago | 76 comments

Iran Goes Dark as Government Cuts Itself Off from Internet(kentik.com)

9 points by m-hodges 9 months ago | 1 comments

I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure(coinerella.com)

631 points by willy__ 8 months ago | 321 comments

A blog post by a founder describing building a startup entirely on European infrastructure, the stack chosen, the difficulties, and unavoidable non-EU dependencies.

GitHub Spam(djanes.xyz)

120 points by bl4ckneon 2 years ago | 69 comments

European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple(waag.org)

650 points by donohoe 3 months ago | 279 comments

Waag Futurelab article arguing that European digital ID wallets depend on Google and Apple device attestation services, reinforcing Big Tech power.

Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment(lesnumeriques.com)

886 points by healsdata 5 months ago | 700 comments

Les Numériques article (French) reporting that 130 million Europeans will move to a fully sovereign European payment system from 2026, reducing reliance on Visa and Mastercard.

Gmail, Yahoo announce new 2024 authentication requirements for bulk senders(blog.google)

538 points by ilamont 3 years ago | 381 comments

Google Keyword blog post announcing that starting in 2024 Gmail will require bulk senders to authenticate email, support easy unsubscribe, and stay under a spam threshold.

Migrating to the EU(rz01.org)

836 points by exitnode 7 months ago | 640 comments

A personal blog post describing the author's move of services and subscriptions from non-EU providers to European ones for political and data protection reasons.

Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message(discuss.privacyguides.net)

575 points by negura 5 months ago | 427 comments

Privacy Guides forum thread discussing Google account registration now requiring users to send an SMS from their phone (via QR code) rather than receive one.

Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe(neowin.net)

373 points by paweladamczuk 6 days ago | 207 comments

Neowin news article reporting a Google Cloud outage disrupting HSBC, Revolut, Bank of Scotland, Lloyds, Equifax and other European services.