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Pantherina (he)@feddit.org to Open Source@lemmy.ml ·
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The Free Software Foundation Europe was cancelled by their payment provider after refusing to hand over personal account data!

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The Free Software Foundation Europe was cancelled by their payment provider after refusing to hand over personal account data!

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The Free Software Foundation Europe was cancelled by their payment provider after refusing to hand over personal account data! - feddit.org
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> Over the past few months, our former payment provider Nexi S.p.A. (“Nexi”) requested access to private data, which we understood to be specifically the usernames and passwords of our supporters. We have refused this request. All our attempts to clarify Nexi’s request, or to understand how their need for such information was necessary and legal, were met with what we consider to be vague and unsatisfactory explanations relating to a general need for risk analysis. > > Subsequently, we found ourselves unable to receive credit card donations through Nexi’s system. In the afternoon of 10 March, we were further informed that our contract had been cancelled a few days prior on 7 March, due to our supposed failure to meet their deadline to fulfil their request. This deadline was not communicated to us beforehand, despite us having been Nexi’s customer for the past 15 years. This is completely crazy! As 450 supporters are affected, that is a huge amount of donations that were cut off!

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  • BilSabab@lemmy.world
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    That’s some rice field level bullshit

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    Fuck payment processors use crypto

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      Lmao crypto failed at it’s purpose before you even knew about it. Shit is centralized and monitored, it’s the exact same as any other currency.

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        https://www.midnight.gd/

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        getmonero.org

    • Goldenring@lemmy.ca
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      Crypto is scam.

    • recklessengagement@lemmy.world
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      Considering every crypto exchange nowadays has KYC, it’s not that much better.

      • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.ml
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        you can just not use them, there’s still plenty of individuals willing to trade crypto for cash on decentralized marketplaces. You don’t have to use the big exchanges just because they are big you know?

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          They could choose to just not use crypto and shut the fuck up…

          Or…

          They could lose their entire goddamn minds over nothing because they haven’t touched grass or a vagina in 45 years.

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        Retoswap, LocalMonero, and Bisq dont

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        Actually, there’s still stuff like localmonero and bisq which were non-KYC when I last checked, but your point still stands.

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    Man, the payment processors got bored with NSFW and they’re attacking free software now?

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      Porn is always the canary in the coal mine when it comes to things like this and censorship.

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      My suspicion is that they either were pressed by government to demand that data, or they wanted to terminate contracts at fault of the client.

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      They attack everybody that isn’t a bootlicker

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      How much you want to bet some billionaire bought them on the down low? Because they’ve been working fine with this FSFE for 15 years and now all of a sudden this is something that they require? It’s very suspicious.

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    Now I am a monthly donor!

    Thanks for sharing.

    • BenjiRenji@feddit.org
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      Yearly, but yes!

    • pmk@piefed.ca
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      Same :)

    • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org
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      ❤

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    Over the past few months, our former payment provider Nexi S.p.A. (“Nexi”) requested access to private data, which we understood to be specifically the usernames and passwords of our supporters. We have refused this request. All our attempts to clarify Nexi’s request, or to understand how their need for such information was necessary and legal, were met with what we consider to be vague and unsatisfactory explanations relating to a general need for risk analysis.

    Y tho. What in fuck does a payment provider have to do with asking for this?

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      How come there’s never a name attached to these things.

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        As in a name reporting the issue, or a name from the payment provider?

        It’s on the FSFE homepage if you need confirmation of the story: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260316-01.en.html

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          I mean the name of the people who are originating these ideas. We should be putting names like who are the executives.

          They get away with this stuff because they’re faceless organizations or higher ups beyond consequences.

          I just see so many systems in place that are there to allow these things to trample us and nobody in this generation challenges. Like the opposition to authority in this generation just seems like they’re apart of the authority. They’re also playing they’re role.

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      Is this not against GDPR? I feel like this would be a slam dunk case.

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        FSFE should report them to the GDPR authority, but also financial ones.

        The article says Nexi reached out after ‘cancelling’ the contract - meaning FSFE was financially offline for those few days. If it were a ‘normal’ business this was done to, they would sue for damages to hell and back.

        And so should FSFE.

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      …and passwords

      Um, excuse me? For starters they should only ever have hashes, but there is never a valid reason to ask for that many passwords.

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        Missed opportunity for them to troll Nexi and just send them:

        Usernames Passwords hunter2 hunter2

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        Many? Not for one

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    Primary source: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260316-01.en.html

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      Thank you, not sure why OP didn’t cross-post the original post here?

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        Because Jerboa doesnt support that and not even the Lemmy WebUI had an obvious way to do this

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    at which shareholder’s demand?

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    For the future; Lemmy has a perfectly functional cross-post button.

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      Send a screenshot please. I never managed to do that

      • exu@feditown.com
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        Here’s how it looks in the Lemmy web ui

        From this post

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          Will try

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