cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/25779751

The intative promises to be privacy-friendly with no tracking. Stating:

Your privacy is important. The WiFi4EU app ensures a private online experience with no tracking or data collection. Simply connect and enjoy free public Wi-Fi without concerns.

Source: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/wifi4eu-citizens

Will be interesting to see how this spans and plays out in reality. Looks promising too, did a quick scan of their builtin permissions and trackers and looks good too. (Scanning tool is called Exodus)

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    13 hours ago

    Damn, this is so cool.
    We could have had this in the States too, but, well, you all know.

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        9 hours ago

        Surely that’s unrelated to the billions of dollars that the telecom companies stole from the taxpayer after promising to build out infrastructure?

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        9 hours ago

        Ironically enough there’s basically a private version of this through Comcast turning their rented CPEs into their own unlicensed wifi mesh, they call it WiFi Pass – they at least have the courtesy to give it to you gratis if you’re already paying for residential service.

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      7 hours ago

      It shows you are american and not familiar with the EU.
      ‘privacy friendly’ is a euphemistic PR term, not unlike making the horrible Patriot Act worse and renaming it the ‘Freedom Act’.

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        3 hours ago

        Do you have other examples? I am really curious when they said privacy friendly and ended up snooping.

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          1 hour ago

          I’ll copy my answer to an EU fanboy:

          Never said the rest is safer, doesn’t mean they are ‘privacy friendly’, they aren’t.

          It’s quite a leap to go from that to just assuming they’ll secretly and illegally spy on you
          

          Plenty of stuff like this or this or this

          And they did as much against Pegasus as they do against israel. Some words and recommendations.

          22 EU clients, at least, have acquired it. quite a leap to go from that to just assuming they will not spy on you as a collective, more than is already ‘publicly available’. Organisations that spy usually don’t advertise their practices.