On Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 4:44 PM Karl Semich <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a recurring monthly payment to these guys that I've never sorted > out what is for or how to cancel or if I want to. It's been repeating for > more years than this email is old. > > This month it cost me over $600 because my account was overdrawn and the > charge kept repeating. I was over $200 negative when I looked. > > All my tails money went to banking institutions in overdraw and transfer > fees, eating into all my other money. >
Oh and: the recurring amount is $5.00/month. [I probably wanted to compensate riseup for using their services, but I never remember this] > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Tails - News <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, Jul 8, 2018, 2:53 AM > Subject: [Tails-news] Police raid at Zwiebelfreunde: Donor data compromised > To: <[email protected]> > > > On June 20th 2018, German police searched the homes of board members of our > former fiscal sponsor Zwiebelfreunde in a coordinated raid. Zwiebelfreunde > (_Friends of onions_ in German) is a non-profit organization that supports > privacy and anonymity projects and operates several Tor exit nodes. > > They are not accused of a crime but considered to be witnesses in a case: > the > operators of an anonymous website calling for protest against the far-right > AfD (Alternative for Germany) party convention used an email address at > Riseup, a privacy-friendly email provider to which Zwiebelfreunde > facilitates > donations. > > During the search, computers, storage media, personal items, bank account > records, and paper receipts have been confiscated. This unfortunately means > that if you have donated to Tails before October 18th 2017 using our > European > bank account, your data is now in the hands of the German police (IBAN > account > number, name of account holder, amount, and date). If you donated after > this > date, you donated to our new fiscal sponsor CCT and not to Zwiebelfreunde. > > According to Moritz Bartl, one of the board members, "_there's a long > history > of police using that kind of data to investigate social structures; who's > working where, who's involved in which projects, so we have to assume that > they are looking into the social networks of people_" > ([Source](https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-police-raid-homes-of-tor- > linked-groups-board-members/) > <https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-police-raid-homes-of-tor-linked-groups-board-members/)> > ). > > The raid has been strongly criticized by [German > media](http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/hausdurchsuchungen-bei- > > netzaktivisten-chaos-computer-club-kritisiert-polizeivorgehen-a-1216463.html > <http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/hausdurchsuchungen-bei-netzaktivisten-chaos-computer-club-kritisiert-polizeivorgehen-a-1216463.html> > ) > and [digital rights activists]( > https://netzpolitik.org/2018/zwiebelfreunde- > durchsuchungen-wenn-zeugen-wie-straftaeter-behandelt-werden/ > <https://netzpolitik.org/2018/zwiebelfreunde-durchsuchungen-wenn-zeugen-wie-straftaeter-behandelt-werden/>) > as being > [disproportionate]( > https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2018/hausdurchsuchungen-bei- > vereinsvorstanden-der-zwiebelfreunde-und-im-openlab-augsburg > <https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2018/hausdurchsuchungen-bei-vereinsvorstanden-der-zwiebelfreunde-und-im-openlab-augsburg> > ). > > Please join us in supporting our friends at > [Zwiebelfreunde](https://www.zwiebelfreunde.de/). We are very grateful > for the > support they have provided to Tails. > > Read more about the case and find links to international press coverage on > [Zwiebelfreunde's blog](https://blog.torservers.net/20180704/coordinated- > raids-of-zwiebelfreunde-at-various-locations-in-germany.html > <https://blog.torservers.net/20180704/coordinated-raids-of-zwiebelfreunde-at-various-locations-in-germany.html> > ). > > > > URL: https://tails.boum.org/news/zwiebelfreunde_raided/index.en.html > _______________________________________________ > amnesia-news mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/amnesia-news > To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to > [email protected]. >
