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EU approval for chat control (www.patrick-breyer.de)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/technology

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We need to do something against this. The EU plans to apply a law for a chat control in the territory. The approval say that all the chats and the emails would be send to the government to do AI scanning to in fact “find the children abuses”, even when using apps with end-to-end encryption (the EU will ask the services to open their secrets keys… we know that Microsoft, Google and Facebook have already agreed to this. On the other hand Signal for example had said that they would leave the EU if this law will be applied). We need to counter this, because this restrict the privacy and the security of the citizens. Even if you’re not living in the EU, you should take a look because that could encourage others to do the same! Please take a look of the situation and make you your own idea of the case. Find out here the votes results for now, by countries and more... mepwatch.eu

Some others organizations criticized the approval, a open letter/petition was posted here : globalencryption.org

PS : I know that this was posted on the community a bit before (https://lemmy.world/post/16093632) but I think this is really important and the people should know it. That's a really regrettable decision for the population. thx

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If this law passes I will delete What's App. I don't fucking care how many contacts I will loose. Matrix it is then.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You know even without the law should consider deleting whatsapp and switched to signal or other private stuff

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I would prefer Matrix or XMPP, they don't have the risks regarding centralization and are thus far harder to censor.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

For sure these are better for a more private and can avoid censorship far more easily, you can use Session as well, but the of Signal is really good because of their solid proved encryption. Snowden and others recommend it. Maybe not the absolute best but far away from the worst

[–] RaoulDook 3 points 5 months ago

Signal is also great because it is easy to use, and works on all mobile platforms. It's probably the easiest secure chat app to get people onboard with using.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Major XMPP clients now have implemented OMEMO - from what I understand, it's very similar.

My issue with Signal, aside from centralization and phone numbers, is how it is annoying to use without a smartphone.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Doesn’t need phone numbers anymore

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

First - it does still require one for registration, just no longer requires it to be public. Second - this still has nothing to do with the fact that desktop doesn't allow registration and tells you to register from a smartphone instead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, I try to avoid it, but its kinda ass, if you loose contact to literally everyone you know.

I already use Signal and matrix for certain groups and contacts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I can understand I've gone trough that as well, but you know it's so much safer to use a more private messaging app, as example we suspect the Israeliens to use AI and WhatsApp to organize murders to suspected pro Palestinians people, based on their groups on whatsapp...