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‘Let yourself be monitored’: EU governments to agree on Chat Control with user “consent” [updated] (www.patrick-breyer.de)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 127 points 1 year ago (1 children)

users of apps with a communication function would have to agree via terms and conditions or pop-up messages that all images and videos sent to others will be scanned automatically and possibly reported to the EU and the police.

This is more like coercion than consent.

And let's be clear: The goal of legislation like this is not to allow investigating child abusers, which can already be done legally. The goal is to impose mass surveillance on the population, circumventing due process.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What if I don't agree? No messages?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the next EULA click no or don't agree and try using the service

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It works with cookie popups, except you need to deny them with every page load

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Those are a little different.

[–] Appoxo 2 points 1 year ago

Most likely.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This will probably just make peer to peer messaging apps more popular.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Briar is pretty cool if you're on Android.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the advantage over signal?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you have Internet it uses tor and there's no main server to rely on.

If there's no Internet it can use Bluetooth and Wi-Fi locally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well I have to admit, those are some pretty snazzy tricks...

Using tor on a per app basis is pretty cool, I wonder what the security implications are for that? If some, but not all of your traffic is going through tor, I wonder if it's easier to disentangle somehow... Probably it's still secure though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Very cool and impressive, but I'd rather be able to share arbitrary files.

And looks like you can only send images in DMs, but not in groups/forums.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think that most people will care

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

99 percent of people won't care, won't understand, or just be part of the mindset of why be scared if we have nothing to hide.

Only us techs will care

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Facts, if I could donate a star or gold I would

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just don't get it why mainsteam media almost never reports about this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Because it's not been free press for a long time.

Remember when journalism was supposed to be outrageous? That's not a mark of quality, that's a rule. If it's not outrageous, then it's most likely not journalism.

It also never reports on wars outside of the agreed upon narrative. There's time and narrative for everything. That doesn't happen with free press. There may not be open censorship and coercion, but not seeing something is different from knowing it doesn't exist.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Well, ones that aren't based on a service operating in the EU, at any rate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this could finally be a good "reason" to convice some people near me to get into meshtastic

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They always hide behind the claim it's for the children... but how many children have they actually saved from this?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They always hide behind the claim it’s for the children

Sometimes it's the terrorists.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

But... Are they then going to catch or protect all the terrorist children?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It's so that children wouldn't get recruited by terrorists.

Extrapolating a bit, children here may symbolize the civilian casualties of that world order becoming a bit more open, and terrorists those of us who don't agree.

See, I can do this without alcohol.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They’re probably gonna put parents behind bars for a misunderstanding on their private lives

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This reminds me of that time google was scanning photos and reported a man to the police for being a pedophile, turns out it was a father sending a picture to his doctor

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

That's our tax dollars at work.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Catholic clergy is sill grifting around this here country...

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

If consent mattered, governments and corporations all around the world wouldn't be pushing to expand the global surveillance apparatus.

Is this just another Tuesday now? Fuck me.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Self hosting for the win!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd vote for testing this mass chat control on politicians and CEOs of the companies that want this mass control. Let's say for the next 10 years? Or 20? Pretty sure the results will be great. For people, for justice, for democracy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That won't happen. What will happen is that functionality will be there, on paper requiring your consent, but you'll never know how many times they've used it without consent.

They will read your correspondence, find threats to their power, make sure by soft nudges that those never materialize.

People saying that USSR was democratic will get to live in one, only without even the ideology of "freeing the humanity, building communism and colonizing space".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even if you don't opt in, 99% of the people you interact with would have opted in. So you will monitored as they please.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

As if any chat systems inteded for dubious purposes in the darknet would give a flying f-ck about this law.