Post #1229211
2026-04-14 19:59 UTC
@jaz @earth_walker
I'm certainly not a lawyer or expert on this, and I'm sure it varies between legal jurisdictions... but I thought that US law has (some?) liability protections for "common carriers" who pass data but are unable to read it.
Your ISP isn't liable for stuff you download over a secure HTTPS/SSL connection. In theory, the same *should* apply here. But still, someone may try to test it in court.
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@jaz@toot.wales 2026-04-14 20:13
@benpate US law is certainly one jurisdiction, one which routinely compels the sharing of metadata of E2EE users and their conversations, and one which is trying very hard to remove a number of protections currently enjoyed by US-based service providers through legislation such as KOSA and EARN-IT. Also, social media companies are not common carriers. That's a very different thing (like ISPs, telcos, and railroads.) Also... https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/fediverse-near-me_828094#3/25.799891/29.794922