Turn off DoH, Firefox

Re:Turn off DoH, Firefox by stakhanov on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @08:51AM (#20939495)

> DNS requests are routinely intercepted and monitored by ISPs in many countries, with the information available to the security services, who have very few restrictions on what they are allowed to do with this data. This is especially true in the country the author appears to be based (Germany).

Germany: Storing data for a limited period of time so that data pertaining to individuals can be requested on a case-by-case basis by law enforcement (we are talking Police, not all of government). Not a big deal.

U.S.: Highly developed and well resourced mass surveillance in operation on both the business side (surveillance capitalism) and government side (NSA). Privacy laws that protect only U.S.-based persons and declare data pertaining to foreign persons to be fair game. Big f*ing deal.

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Re:Turn off DoH, Firefox by soraminazuki on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @08:13PM (#20946191)

European privacy laws are great, but I’m not so sure it’s as simple as you make it out to be. German intelligence also cooperates with the US on NSA surveillance.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-spying-merkel/mer...

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