News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Euro MPs back end-to-end encryption for all citizens. Parent comment

Re:Euro MPs back end-to-end encryption for all citizens by usgroup on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @11:20AM (#14595266)
Agreed. I was initially reluctant about the GDPR thinking it'll be more rubbish to have to take into account but was really pleasantly surprised. It actually and seriously implies better rights over collected data and privacy.

I think soon enough, privacy is going to become a serious competitive advantage for Europe because it'll translate into consumer confidence and business confidence .

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Euro MPs back end-to-end encryption for all citizens by k-mcgrady on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @11:32AM (#14595371)
I wish we had more European based alternative services that I could switch to. With email the standard response to dumping Gmail seems to be FastMail (non-EU) and I haven't seen anything high-quality within the EU. Same goes for lots of other services.

If anyone reading has some suggestions for EU based alternatives to popular websites/apps I'd love to hear.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Euro MPs back end-to-end encryption for all citizens by Propen on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @12:02PM (#14595692)
ProtonMail for mail. ProtonVPN just launched, too.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Euro MPs back end-to-end encryption for all citizens by k-mcgrady on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @12:40PM (#14596090)
Being Swiss is it subject to the same EU privacy protections?
[ Parent | on HN ]