cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44781501
GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account. GrapheneOS and our services will remain available internationally. If GrapheneOS devices can’t be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it.
What are they going to do when these states hand over a list of violations at $7,500 per violation?
Are the devs even in a jurisdiction where that matters? Given they’re working on a project specifically focused on privacy and security, even if they are in such a jurisdiction, are they actually traceable, or have they been obfuscating their identity with tools like Tor? It might not be enforceable.
there is a company behind, so they can be identified… but, the foundation is in Canada, so probably California law doesn’t apply to them. unless they start to sell their products in California. not a lawyer so I don’t know for sure how those things work…
Good thing it’s free software
Ah, yeah, then they can’t be touched unless Canada passes something stupid, too. Which in the general global political climate… Isn’t impossible. But they may just geoblock California and other jurisdictions with similar laws so they can have plausible deniability. Of course, users could circumvent that entirely a dozen different ways, especially those technically inclined enough to install GrapheneOS, so I’m not sure how much it would really hurt them.
Hopefully, what 4chan did.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c624330lg1ko
Just checked, Graphene is a registered non-profit in Canada.