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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    7 hours ago

    But those are all publicly available pieces of legislation. It’s quite a leap to go from that to just assuming they’ll secretly and illegally spy on you through public wifi networks, without any law allowing them to do so. Besides, if they have no problem doing that, why would internet through your European ISP be any safer?

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      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.