How is play dumb the wildcard? If they had anything on OP they had him already fired. German chancellor used the prase “i dont remember” in court to get away scoff free from the biggest tax fraud case in german history. If they have anything on you, they’ll use it anyway. Saying anything besides “i dont remember taking food” is self incrimination. OP should be prepared to know the process of discarding food at the end of the shift though.

Afaik german court ruled being an afghan woman is sufficient for asylum. idk how the law is nowadays though. However i read “…and their family members” which might implicate they wanted to relocate whole families including men, all or nothing. Furthermore i guess you have to go some official way with most countries through embassies which didnt exist there? Portugal might just have been able to alter their law to accept zoom meetings as asylum application first.

I think a good approach is to provide the company basic AI tools like chatbot that are secure. With most AI providers you can get contracts to have a private instance and your data isnt trained on. NSA et al. will have access to your data anyway through windows backdoors or even mobile devices.