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[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 83 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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?

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 40 points 1 month ago (2 children)

…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.

[–] Undertaker@feddit.org 11 points 1 month ago

Many? Not for one

[–] diablomnky666@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 month ago

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

Usernames Passwords hunter2 hunter2

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] listless@lemmy.cringecollective.io 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 42 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 month ago

They attack everybody that isn't a bootlicker

[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

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

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] pantherina@feddit.org 11 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Nickelalloy@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Now I am a monthly donor!

Thanks for sharing.

[–] pmk@piefed.ca 1 points 1 month ago
[–] exu@feditown.com 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] pantherina@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Send a screenshot please. I never managed to do that

[–] exu@feditown.com 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Here's how it looks in the Lemmy web ui

From this post

[–] pantherina@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago
[–] x3lz@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Fuck payment processors use crypto

[–] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Considering every crypto exchange nowadays has KYC, it's not that much better.

[–] parzival@lemmy.org 3 points 1 month ago

Retoswap, LocalMonero, and Bisq dont

[–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

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?

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

No need to use an exchange.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Goldenring@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

Crypto is scam.

[–] DillDough@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That's some rice field level bullshit

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

at which shareholder's demand?