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On Monday a new version of the globally unprecedented EU bill aimed at searching all private messages and chats for suspicious content (so-called chat control or child sexual abuse regulation) was circulated and leaked by POLITICO soon after. According to the latest proposal providers would be free whether or not to use ‘artificial intelligence’ to classify unknown images and text chats as ‘suspicious’. However they would be obliged to search all chats for known illegal content and report them, even at the cost of breaking secure end-to-end messenger encryption. The EU governments are to position themselves on the proposal by 23 September, and the EU interior ministers are to endorse it on 10 October. Messenger providers Signal and Threema have already announced that they will never agree to incorporate such surveillance routines into their apps and would rather shut down operations in the EU.

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[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 48 points 10 months ago (4 children)

This is hard to look at. I thought our side of the ocean was dystopian. So you get health care, but no private texting.

[–] Im_old@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago (2 children)

We'll still do, just not from corporations. That's the reason I've been running my matrix server for years. The crypto(graphy) wars of early 2000 it's an example why it won't work. Unless they ban github and similar, there will always be free/open software to fill that need.

Also we don't get mass shootings 😅

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How do you message someone who doesn’t use your matrix server?

[–] Im_old@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I should have clarified, it's for close family only. If ChatControl comes to pass I guess some more people will get onboarded on it.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] Im_old@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

No idea, it's not federated anyway

[–] sleen@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not who you replied to but Spantaleev’s Ansible script can be fired at a VPS of your choice and Bob’s your uncle.

[–] Alk@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Bob actually is my uncle how the fuck did you know?? This is why we need secure communication methods so everyone will stop doxxing my poor uncle.

[–] Im_old@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Nothing fancy, just this on a vps.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The US will quickly follow if the EU passes it I bet

[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Have you not heard of KOSA? We're basically trying already.

[–] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Healthcare and no private texting is still better than school shootings

[–] squid_slime@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Only some places get free health care. Some EU countries have insurance systems.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 44 points 10 months ago (2 children)

AGAIN?

Will they keep trying this again and again and again and again until it passes?

[–] projectmoon@lemm.ee 24 points 10 months ago

That is exactly the plan.

[–] nforminvasion@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Go back to posts about the last time they tried and look at the comments predicting this would happen.

It's scary how persistent they are to pass it

[–] dasenboy@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

Anyone know if it passed?

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Spain is really trying their absolute damndest to root out and "arrest" separatists I guess...

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Same with Ireland

[–] TarantulaFudge@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

+1 for decentralized or federalized services gonna plug matrix here I've used it for 5 years avoid using matrix.org homeserver

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

So much care about private chats, so little care about legislating shadow moderation and troll factories.

[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Hey, that green shape looks familiar...