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There’s a major state sponsored misinformation and smear campaign towards GrapheneOS in the Netherlands and Germany. The misinformation campaign includes unsubstantiated security claims not holding up to scrutiny to scare people away from it. They’re also heavily misrepresenting who uses it overall.
These smear campaigns conflate GrapheneOS with forks and modifications of it sold by shady companies. Those usually include a device management app to remotely manage the devices of their customers as if they’re employees. These are largely not GrapheneOS devices or have preinstalled malware apps.
France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands are becoming increasingly authoritarian surveillance states with an ongoing crackdown against privacy. It’s happening throughout the whole EU and it’s likely both secure devices and end-to-end encryption without backdoors are going to end up outlawed.
There are a bunch of companies based in the EU selling phones with drastically worse privacy and security than an iPhone including Jolla, Volla, Murena and iodé. These products are effectively backdoored by not providing standard privacy and security patches/protections while misleading users.
I’m not arguing one way or another on this particular topic, however, I will point out that constitutions get ignored, or their meanings twisted, without constant vigilance. The USA’s constitution has been ignored or misinterpreted ever since its inception and especially so in recent years.
German law or even EU law works differently than US law on a fundamental level. In the US only the written word counts and it‘s completely open for Interpretation each time the law is applied.
In Germany laws exist for a reason. The written word is merely a guideline. The intention of the law is the actual point and it makes it much tougher to challenge.
It still takes people to enforce it. If those people decide not to enforce it, Germany’s paper is as flimsy as anyone else’s.