EU Possibly Emerging As One Of The Greatest Threats To Privacy
As part of its efforts, the bloc has repeatedly introduced its Chat Control legislation, aimed at weakening the encryption that protects messaging services and force providers to provide a client-side backdoor for law enforcement.
EU Possibly Emerging As One Of The Greatest Threats To Privacy
The European Union, once praised for its pro-privacy legislation, is now leading the charge toward a future with less privacy, one where the government can use your devices to spy on you.Matt Milano (WebProNews)
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in reply to schizoidman • • •Darorad
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in reply to ☂️- • • •Through Sweden. If they want to pass this, they can commit Swexit.
Literally no other country (including Germany, which wanted to be in the Five Eyes) has ever proposed this.
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in reply to schizoidman • • •themurphy
in reply to kylian0087 • • •Never probably, these are law proposals.
They have never been voted in, as the majority of EU doesnt want them.
So makes sure to vote in politicans that wont, so we can keep it that way.
SparrowHawk
in reply to schizoidman • • •gomp
in reply to schizoidman • • •The title is missing a second part: "after China, the US, Russia, the UK, etc.".
I get that privacy is potentially in danger if chatcontrol passes (ie. it's not right now) and that to raise awareness is worthwhile, but misrepresenting one of the best places privacy-wise as "one of the greatest threats" is just dishonest.
coach_cheese
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in reply to Ulrich • • •I genuinely sus that all "fedditors" are Washingtobots
Feddit.org instance even has "fed" and "reddit" in it, what an unholy mix
surph_ninja
in reply to gomp • • •Viri4thus
in reply to schizoidman • • •Poland searches for silver bullet for CSA Regulation - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
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in reply to Viri4thus • • •themurphy
in reply to schizoidman • • •EU has the best privacy laws, only behind Switzerland.
They will not be close to the greatest threat, but it will still be a step back.
Also, these are proposals that has not been voted in ever before. So be sure to vote for politicians that wont, so we can keep it that way.
surph_ninja
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in reply to surph_ninja • • •patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/cha…
He put the ones who didnt vote 'in favour', that's why it didnt pass.
But you can see who's directly opposing.
Chat Control: The EU's CSAM scanner proposal
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in reply to surph_ninja • • •floquant
in reply to schizoidman • • •Phoenixz
in reply to schizoidman • • •I'm sorry, what now?
There is no place on this earth with better privacy protection laws
Yeah, it's still far from perfect but to call ot the greatest threat is just disingenuous, it's a lie. It's shouting FIRE in a movie theater because someone smokes. Stop doing this shit
surph_ninja
in reply to Phoenixz • • •Accidental self-own admitting to everyone you haven’t been paying attention to the EU’s aggressive software backdoor agenda.
If you don’t have privacy from the government, you don’t have privacy.
unhrpetby
in reply to surph_ninja • • •Privacy refers to more than just privacy regarding the government.
Your threat model and situation might mean that if the government knows something, its as bad as if every single person knows it.
But this isn't for everyone.
surph_ninja
in reply to unhrpetby • • •unhrpetby
in reply to surph_ninja • • •I don't see how this supports your previous claim of: "If you don’t have privacy from the government, you don’t have privacy."
Zerush
in reply to surph_ninja • • •Does Google Read Your Email? | PreVeil
PreVeilFerk
in reply to surph_ninja • • •Can you point to a specific law that the EU has passed in this direction?
Cos according to the article all attempts to pass something like this that have been presented in the EU have been blocked. By the EU.
An alternative title could have been: "EU Possibly The Only One Who Has Been Explicitly Rejecting Backdoor Mandates Until Now"
Sure, proposals keep being presented.. but I feel it's kind of a bit early to call the EU "greatest threat" just because yet another attempt has been made. Specially when you compare it with many other places where they apply things like this without batting an eye.
I'm not saying we (Europeans) shouldn't push (yet again) to make sure this also fails... but the title of the article is a bit misplaced, and after a history of successful rejections I feel a lot more optimistic.
SocialMediaRefugee
in reply to schizoidman • • •Bubbaonthebeach
in reply to schizoidman • • •Zerush
in reply to schizoidman • • •It is a big difference to confuse the lack of privacy when an gov can access userdata in the case of an court order with the lack of privacy when private companies can spread and sell userdata.
The difference is the right of the user to access and delete his data, which exists by law in the EU, but not in the USA. The EU is far from perfect, but lightyears better in questions of privacy
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orcrist
in reply to schizoidman • • •No, it's not even close to one of the greatest threats. Of course it's up to shady s***, of that there can be no doubt, but it's not ranked in the top five.
Classic baitclick.
ArcaneSlime
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