Waag

The EU's digital identity wallet uses Google Play Integrity to vouch for a phone, which rejects de-Googled Android as untrusted. Switzerland uses Android's plain Hardware Attestation API instead; Italy and the Netherlands wired in Play Integrity unconditionally.

A Waag researcher argues that route breaches the Digital Markets Act. In the thread, the developer of the Fenrir protocol predicts nothing changes until an antitrust lawsuit lands.

Waag migrated its Bluesky data to Eurosky, an EU-based host, using an 'EU-Haul' service. Because AT Protocol stores your posts on a movable personal data server, the account, history and followers came along.

The thread's flip: this buys portability, not privacy. A Bluesky-using engineer notes AT Protocol replicates everything publicly by design — 'there's no privacy at all.'