Thanks @LCE and @TDK for your participation in this unusual topic.
I understand that the point is not immediately detectable, so, to avoid misunderstandings:
ST maintains free tools for developers, and I agree with them when they require a login to know who downloads from their servers.
But what the EU wants here is to keep track of the internet connection's subscriber and the physical location of the IP address. This is a piece of the puzzle, if we consider what the EU is trying to do with the Chat Control law. I kindly invite you to learn what it’s about: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
That said, I would reply to @TDK :
if Chat Control becomes law, do you still think EU subjects must adhere to it, just because the EU Parliament decided so?
We are free individuals before we are engineers, and we must reject any form of collection of our personal data. What is happening through these subtle forms of control is that we are all treated as potential criminals, and we must prove our honesty. And the direction being taken is to apply the definition of "criminal" to anyone who disapproves of an oligarchy.
To get a preview of EU intentions, consider that Italy is often the lab for EU experiments, so take a look at what happened in Italy last week, under a directive that seems like a bag of tricks:
if a person reaches a certain number of views on social media, and if any of their posts disappoints (on an arbitrary basis, of course) a so-called "agency for communications" (which is not a court of law), that agency has been granted powers that could lead to the revocation of the publisher's passport, by making it economically impossible to appeal. Who's next?
Kind regards
MCU speaks VHDL and CPU speaks assembly. Neither of them speaks HAL.
