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==> Ungleich GmbH says, “Turn off DoH, Firefox. Now.”, and I wholeheartedly agree.
Having worked for a major European telco, I get the impression that the amount of regulation they face around data protection and privacy is tremendous. My experience has been that this stuff is by no means taken lightly, either.
It would never in a million years occur to me to re-route my traffic away from the legal protections it enjoys with a European ISP’s network and instead entrust it to a nearly unregulated entity in the U.S.
In a German telco, data pertaining to individuals is stored for a limited period of time so that it can be requested on a case-by-case basis by law enforcement (we are talking Police, not all of the government). I can live with that.
In the U.S., there’s a highly developed and well-resourced mass surveillance system on both the business side (surveillance capitalism) and the government side (NSA et al.). Privacy laws there are almost non-existent and, to the extent that they do exist, they protect only U.S.-based persons and declare data pertaining to foreign persons as being up for grabs.
#computers | Sep-11 2019
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