New EU Chat Control proposal moves forward

https://techreport.com/news/new-eu-chat-control-proposal-privacy-experts-see-dangerous-backdoor/

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dataking•40m ago

As far as I understand, people using this site to contact their elected officials were instrumental in making lawmakers back down from ChatControl v2.0. Hoping the same will be true this time around.

ryandrake•15m ago

On the contrary, it doesn't seem to have had any effect at all. Nobody actually defeated anything if it just gets re-proposed a few weeks later.

pixl97•11m ago

Ah, the US way, just keep trying to pass the bill again and again until people get tired and it eventually passes quietly.

danaris•7m ago

Every time we stop it from becoming law, that is a victory.

Viewing it as anything else is actively counterproductive.

The fact that they will keep bringing it back until we have better people in the EU Parliament just means that we have to win more victories.

getcrunk•36m ago

How would these types of proposals deal with foss non centralized/fully p2p messaging system? Just make them illegal?

What if the foss app has the “scanning” but can be disabled with a compile time flag

Is my email client going to have to implement this scanning if I use pgp?

dmitrygr•34m ago

the worst way possible" hold authors or distributors of the software responsible. Order apple or google to remove apps. Order ISPs to block domains that host PWAs. Issue arrest warrants for authors of software that does not or cannot comply.

layer8•5m ago

The proposals apply to “providers” of “hosting services“, of “interpersonal communications service”, and of “software application stores” (you can look up the definitions for yourself in the published texts). It’s hard to see how that would apply to purely P2P systems, except that distributing an app for it via app stores would likely require user age verification.

varispeed•30m ago

The EU has been taken over by terrorists and law enforcement does nothing. People behind Chat Controls should be arrested.

These proposals are against German laws and other EU countries. It can be treated as terrorist attack attempt.

It creates psychological and physical harm, indiscriminately for ideological gain. Textbook terrorism, except done by nice people in suits and there is no blood (yet).

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