Fine is just the warning. Noncompliance can get the company kicked out of France/EU.

These days yes, which is a shame. But it was used primarily as payment before the financebros caught wind of it.

not certain if i understand your comment correctly but crypto has been used primarily as a form of payment for years before the recent boom. not for groceries or other "real life" stuff, sure, but online people did start to warm up to cryptocurrencies as a payment option.

as long as they're not treated in here like investments but rather private ways of payment i say crypto live

Until we stop the practice of drawing imaginary lines on the planet and regulating which side each person is allowed to be on, nearly every travelers and pretty much all the boarder control apparatus is going to want to spend as little time and money on one another as possible.

Amen to that

They could eventually cross reference the exits to arrivals

Why isn't a passport enough for that? Each one has a unique ID number, why not use that as reference but instead rely on privacy-invasive biometric data collection? You can just tap your passport on a scanner and it'll read the machine readable part on both arrival and departure, then have facial recognition/fingerprints be verified if you wanna be 100% sure the passport holder is who they say they are. Many e-passports have this data embedded inside them on a chip, thought that was the whole point.

What the hell do these guys get out of it? Does someone at CBP jerk off to thinking about the amounts of personal data they collect? How do they use it? Or is it just a database of people's data "in case we need it in the future :3"? wtf...

Not even leaked, just declassified. It's basically a press statement saying "oh we're chill now please store your data in the US"

"Private" and "email" should really not appear in the same sentence. The email protocol was not designed with privacy in mind, so any company offering you a "private" email service is simply pandering to the privacy-conscious crowd. Yes, some may promise to store your messages with "zero access encryption" and end-to-end encrypt messages between users of the same service but unless you're only messaging those users (not gonna happen) copies of all your messages will be hanging around on much less secure/private servers.

Tutanota, Protonmail and Lavabit are currently the most known services promising private email (I have personally opted for Protonmail because it's free and does not require invites) but you're making a mistake if you want to use email for any sort of private or confidential communication. Use mail to create an account on with a service designed with privacy in mind, sure, but don't try and twist email into something that it isn't - you will regret it.

My general philosophy with email is to use a service which would go out of business if it was found out that they've been giving 3rd parties access to your messages and even then don't store anything sensitive on mail. The ones mentioned above will do fine for that.

They will... when they finally get invented. For now though, law enforcement will have to do annoying things like "following the word of law" and convincing judges who clearly do not understand the national security implications of kids going to the wrong school to give them warrants.

Yeah, Matrix should be in the middle. Telegram is tech normie but in the east.

What in the name of fuck is that bill. That's one of the worst pieces of legislation I've seen in a longer while. Companies and open source communities will immediately catch that an employee is trying to sabotage their system on behalf of the government by means of code review and version control history. The programmer will be questioned, then likely fired or ostracized in case of open source works and the code will hit the bin. This idiotic... thing will accomplish nothing but harm their own citizens who will now be treated like potential therats and denied employment opportunities.

On a funnier note, every time Australia introduces some horrible tech-related bill I remember this beautiful clip summarising just how well politicians understand technology.