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EU parliament votes against scanning of private chats
cross-posted from: lemmy.today/post/49179218

Historic Chat Control Vote in the EU Parliament: MEPs Vote to End Untargeted Mass Scanning of Private Chats

In a sensational turn of events in the fight against Chat Control, a majority in the European Parliament voted today to end the untargeted mass scanning of private communications.
Patrick Breyer
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unexposedhazard
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Around 99% of all chat reports sent to police in Europe come from a single US corporation: Meta. US tech giants are acting as private auxiliary police forces—without any effective European oversight.


Thats very interesting. Assuming that whatsapp is actually e2ee that means instagram, facebook and threads account for 99% of all chat reports. That means all dms on there have been getting scanned. Sounds like people should leave those platforms.

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lumen
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Not true for WhatsApp. It has a report function that forwards the last 5 messages in the conversation to Meta when used.
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unexposedhazard
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Didnt know that, i think i havent used it for over a decade.
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bless
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Could it be that the client (who has the keys to decrypt the message) just forwards those messages when the report is sent?
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Coleslaw4145
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Or maybe people are mislead by (and putting to much trust in) the term "end-to-end encryption"

Sure its encrypted in transit between you and the person you're exchanging messages with.

But that doesnt mean the Whatsapp app itself isnt scanning your chats on the phone.

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asudox
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Once again. In a few months, they'll do the same and this will repeat until the law passes.
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Voxel
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You didn't even understand the context. It's about a law that already passed as temporarily and is about to run out.
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Fossifoo [comrade/them]
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"Pressure is now mounting on EU governments to respect the MEPs’ vote" I do love Patrick for all the good work he does but
doubt
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Dessalines
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To do this effectively, they'd have to ban facebook/whatsapp, which are the two most popular chat apps in Europe.
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WhyJiffie
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not really. there are several ways they could implement it
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RedGreenBlue
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The push for Chat Control is heavily driven by foreign-funded lobby groups and tech vendors.
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huf [he/him]
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huf [he/him]
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skill issue. have they thought about passing a "russian" (oooooh scary!) NGO law?
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FoundFootFootage78
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Is this AI generated?

It has an m-dash and uses the phrase "hard facts".

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Twongo [she/her]
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isn´t this like the 3rd time already? lol
I talked to a few MEPs about chat control and other stuff - while the focus was on chat control the EU got this shit sneakily approved

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Vertretung in Deutschland
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Twongo [she/her]
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sorry, this should provide more context (german though)

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