• German police have seized the names and banking details of donors to TorServers
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The names and bank details of European donors to TorServers.net – a node provider to the Tor anonymity network and its associated operating system Tails – are now with the German Federal Police after coordinated raids on four homes and a lawyers office in Dresden. German police produced a warrant to investigate the privacy activist group RiseUp after a left-wing blog called “Krawalltouristen” (ruckus tourists) used their anonymous email and VPN services to organise a protest of the far-right AfD party. Police were supposedly concerned that the protest could become violent. However, police ultimately raided a separate organisation called Zwiebelfreunde under the auspices of a ‘tenuous’ financial link to RiseUp: a pretty vast overreach that enabled them to seize documentation from a range of internet privacy projects. Zwiebelfreunde also handle European donations to TorServers.net, and a blog post on the TorServers website confirmed all their documentation relating to European donations was seized. The Tor network also facilitates the platform SecureDrop: a whistleblowing platform currently used by the Guardian, ProPublica, The Intercept and the Washington Post. Zwiebelfreunde themselves were not involved with the alleged crime; likewise, TorServers had nothing to do with the incident at hand: they are both only guilty of association with the alleged culprits, making the police action against them and their loss of sensitive data appear suspiciously arbitrary. German police have seized the names and banking details of donor.. Great to hear the Stasi is still alive and kicking.
gamers......
... What? https://riseup.net/
This sounds kinda like a huge overreach of power. Last I checked guilt by association wasn't a valid reason to treat people like criminals.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GamersRiseUp/
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