That is actually good news. Means that people more likely to be “normies” are adopting an alternative solution.

I have never heard of anyone not “dealing with it”. Most probably they are just asked to go in person to some physical office with a passport or something. In that case, no thank you.

I am about to check/do this. Problem is the national ID system, based on apps that work the same way.

That’s why I specified legally. Which, being American involved, I reckon still has very little meaning. I cannot undo mistakes I made 15 years ago. Stoically, I can only worry about how I can act in the present.

What is known, at least publicly, about Regeneron?

I hope I deleted my data just in time not to be (legally) included in this.

I also wondered who builds it from source.

Apparently it is this development team, which, I must say, has several interesting projects active:

https://guardianproject.info/

I just checked and I installed Signal from F-Droid.

It says Repository: Guardian Project on the app page.

I am talking about Europe now:

we need trains. We need to unify the rail systems (rail width and electrical tensions) and the ticket systems. Europe could be easily served using a network of night train routes.

I think there should be way more political discourse about rail in the EU, but, for example in Italy, airports have been used as electoral campaigning devices.

Please notice I said real money. Of course they make some money from the tickets, but the highest number I could find is 60% of revenue, and you have to calculate that it is a hyper-regulated seasonal industry.

I don’t think airlines make any real money from the flights.

If you had nothing, as you said you would have, you would have nothing to provide to the authorities.

This is exactly what happened with Mullvad: https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/21/23692580/mullvad-vpn-raid-sweden-police

I know that this may be a requirement in Switzerland, that is why I would not use a Swiss product in the first place.

Trust in a product can be weaponized.

Also, as a Roman, I would never trust a Swiss. Call it genetic memory.

I see Proton and Bluesky. Appreciable effort, but it can be done better.

I take the (you may call it Stoic) decision not to think about what I cannot affect. 23andMe is not a good company, it is tied to Google etc. and they are sloppy with security. I am not even trying to justify myself not taking my data away from there earlier, that is my fault, and I have been stupid and lazy.

That said, their Privacy Statement is quite clear about what should happen and none of the exception listed there apply, also because genetic data is anyway Art. 9 data.

I will act at the best of my possibilities and not concern myself more than needed with how bad of an actor anyone may be in the US (it is a bit overwhelming as an exercise, especially nowadays).

What I meant is that “this Privacy Statement will apply to your Personal Information as transferred to the new entity”, so by itself the sale of assets is not a reason to exclude any data from anything stated there.

I am deleting my account as soon as I get transferred all the data, but what happens when I request the deletion is still valid whether or not they sold the assets.

And genetic data of any kind is absolutely covered by GDPR: https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-34/

A merger or liquidation is not a valid purpose to store personal, and especially Art. 9, data, as covered by the legal basis of legal obligations, according to GDPR. So, if you are in Europe, they would have to delete it.

Total security is the same as zero risk: it does not exist. Still requiring companies to properly collect documentation about data subject requests is a positive in my book.

Proper identification requires a logged in device to take a picture of you and possibly a short video in which the document is moved in front of the camera (to confirm the holograms).

This is actually required to comply with the GDPR.