Based on a new proposal by the Belgian Minister of the Interior, EU governments could endorse the much-criticised child sexual abuse regulation (CSAR or chat control) as early as June after all. This is what internal information leaked to Pirate Party MEP and shadow rapporteur Patrick Breyer reveals
    • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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      1 month ago

      In Germany we have the wahl-o-mat, translates roughly into elect-o-mat.

      This is a website loaded with all available parties and their political demands. You then answer a few dozen questions to identify your own opinions on the different subjects and then runs a comparison. You then end up with a tiered list of political parties you align with the most.

      Perhaps a similar tool exists for other languages and countries as well

  • Blizzard@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Thie is a ‘must read’ article and should be trending tonreach as many people as possible.

  • kbal@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    Based on a new proposal by the Belgian Minister

    It took me a minute to figure out what is supposed to be “new” about it. Apparently they still want a back door to all your encrypted messaging, but they promise not to use it to look at text, only images. I guess the idea is that people are becoming aware that the current “AI” systems are not really capable of understanding language well enough to do what is wanted here, but many haven’t yet caught on to the fact that they’re also sufficiently bad at discerning the meaning of images.

    I wonder how much worse things would be if AI actually could do these things.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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      1 month ago

      Nevermind that even if not consenting was an option, this law would still enforce the compromising of all secure communication.

      • winterayars@sh.itjust.works
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        1 month ago

        Yeah, even if zero people ever consented the ability to defeat end to end exception would still be required in the software just in case someone ever did consent. That’s all governments need to bring their other powers down on companies. They can spy on whoever they like with this.

  • Beryl@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    This proposal is bonkers. Imagine aaaall the nudes that will have to be manually assessed by police (until they outsource it because it’s cheaper), and then you have to believe they won’t keep anything and that there are zero bad apples.

    Besides, if the tools are already in place in the apps, it’s only a question of time before the detection system is repurposed for censorship of anything a totalitarian leaning government doesn’t like. Memes about our dear leader? I’m afraid we can’t allow that !

    You can’t have a backdoor that works for the good guys only.

    • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      repurposed for censorship of anything a totalitarian leaning government doesn’t like

      It’s basically guaranteed they use it against critical journalists, political opponents and activists right out of the gate. It’s what always happens when they get the ability to spy on citizens. And the real criminals move to unofficial encrypted platforms mostly out of reach of law enforcement.

    • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      lol i thought you EU boys’ government was so amazing and cared so much about privacy! lol!

      You will not hear me bragging or applauding about EU except that the GDPR did bring about some positive changes. And if you ask me I wonder what is happening with all the millions of money from the fines that EU gave to Big Tech companies. EU basically claims that they have no money to keep a Fediverse server running. Puzzling.

      • Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works
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        1 month ago

        Peertube this is a project that killed itself. I laugh at them. they had so many fucking instances and NONE of them allowed registration when i tried to get into it. fuck peertube.

  • t7tis@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    Basically all service providers in the EU will be forced to change their terms of service that all users will have to agree to in order to continue using the service. You will simply get an “updated terms service” notification with a link and one big “OK” button and nothing else. If you follow the link to the terms of service, somewhere deep down (like page 276 of 389) it will says “I agree to be monitored”. You now have the choice to uninstall the app or to click “OK”. It’s basically everything. Obviously Google, Outlook, Yahoo etc and all the Chat apps (Signal, Telegram, Whatsapp) etc. So “Consent” is not really optional if you want to use any internet service, they can just pretend that it is so that can go on an uncontrolled unwarranted spying rampage against everyone and of course for everything.

  • cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    If this passes, could you not self-host an older version of an open source service that does not contain the backdoor (e.g. Matrix) for your closests contacts to circumvent this? Not saying that would be very practical for all communications, but at least for exchanging nudes with your partner? If so, at least there’s that, but it would show how useless it is likely to be as anyone actually in the stated target audience could do the same.

    Or is there something I’m missing that would prevent it?

      • cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml
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        1 month ago

        It is assuming this is implemented in a way that forces all existing messaging services to implement this or shut down. In that case, you would want to build it from source from a point in time before it was implemented (or shut down). If that is not the case, then this wouldn’t be much of a problem to begin with, right?

        • lltnskyc@monero.town
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          1 month ago

          this is implemented in a way that forces all existing messaging services to implement this or shut down

          This is not possible. Anybody can host a messaging service as a tor onion, and there is nothing they can do about it :)

          The only way they can make it work is to basically only allow connections to whitelisted service (not even GFW does that).

        • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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          1 month ago

          I mean, running outdated software is bad practice. Do you think backdoors would have to be cleverly hidden every time, like what we almost got with XZ? If it is in plain sight, I highly doubt a person outside of the oppressed jurisdictions (or just someone anonymous) wouldn’t make a malware-removing fork.