[philwelch]

Doesn’t Germany have specific data privacy laws based on the massive surveillance state that operated in the East up through 1990 or so? And you’re not concerned with using services that go through a country that, by all accounts, is trying to outdo the old Stasi with modern technology?

[_snsh]

Zoom claims to be GDPR compliant (https://zoom.us/de-de/gdpr.html). Frankly, ensuring a company claims compliance is as far as I can go. I'm still hoping that if a company intentionally lies about this they will get sued out of existence. If I'm wrong about this the GDPR is worthless anyway and there isn't really anything I can do.

[xenonite]

The problem is, you are right. In practice, many companies say "well, it is compliant, but we don't care about the rest as long as we can function".

[philwelch]

If you’re not especially worried about having a communist police state intercept your private conversations, that’s your personal business. All I can ask is that you don’t go out of your way trying to legitimize that for everyone else as you have here.