Context: Chat Control 2.0: EU governments set to approve the end of private messaging and secure encryption

“By making a minor concession EU governments hope to find a majority next week to approve the controversial ‘chat control’ bill. According to the proposed child sexual abuse regulation (CSAR), providers of messengers, e-mail and chat services would be forced to automatically search all private messages and photos for suspicious content and report it to the EU. To find a majority for this unprecedented mass surveillance, the EU Council Presidency proposed Tuesday that the scanners would initially search for previously classified CSAM only, and even less reliable technology to classify unknown imagery or conversations would be reserved to a later stage. The proposed „deal“ will be discussed by ambassadors tomorrow and could be adopted by ministers next week.”

Source: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-2-0-eu-governments-set-to-approve-the-end-of-private-messaging-and-secure-encryption/

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    1 year ago

    No shit. Only reason I bring it up is as a way to illustrate how badly I do not want this.

    What a world we live in, when there’s a possibility my use of a private matrix server between family, might become criminal.

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      1 year ago

      There are plans for Matrix to move to P2P someday… I wonder what would happen in that case. Or if we just used https://tox.chat/

      Would the regulation apply at all when it’s just a protocol used between the users, with no intermediary or central server offering the service?