Relying on legislation to get passed or not get passed only gets us so far. Yes, absolutely, write your reps and vote, but also donate to your favorite decentralized, private tech project so they can improve the user experience and get more users. We need to make tyrannical censorship & surveillance not only technically impossible but politically unfeasible. The way we do that is by building better tech and getting more and more of the population to use it.
Therefore there is a real threat that the required majority for mass scanning of private communications may be achieved at any time under the current Hungarian presidency (Hungary being a supporter of the proposal).
Why did they let this Hungarian pro-Nazi idiot regime lead anything?
because it changes every 6 months and everyone get’s a turn
That’s a good move to re-share it! THX for the people 👍
Oh for fucks sake.
When you’re delivering a powerful epigram and suddenly become hyper-aware you’re standing next to Jimmy Smits in a cheap plastic cape.
So tired. These Nazis should be called out for what they are.
Just to be clear authoritarian is not Nazi
My biggest takeaway from this infographic is that norway is not part of the EU, who would’ve thought
You can pry my fishing rights from my cold dead hands!
Norway just like Switzerland are too
richcool to join the club, we are still a part of the European Economic Area and Schengen though.Good for them? Idk how good the EU is
Make no mistake, Germany isn’t opposing this out of a principled stance. The German government too wants more ways to control people’s activity.
The IMK is not the national government
Meanwhile, Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) is fighting for the storage of IP addresses and port numbers without cause
Tbf, one minister’s opinion is not necessarily the opinion of the government as a whole.
Unless it’s Lindner apparently.
I understand that this has been a recent topic in the EU but I’d really like to see information on government positions on this in more areas of the world.
Here’s some more information about the world: https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/internet-censorship-map/
Can someone explain to an American what chat control is?
Basically scanning communications and breaking encryption, under the guise of predictably stopping child abuse
and technically, how would they achieve this?
[Already implemented by google, facebook, and microsoft]
Working like shit then? Has it made a difference?
Force all the big platforms to share their encrypted data. Banning end-to-end encryption. It’s all very stupid and will never actually catch any bad guys.
I have been running my own matrix server andere cliënt for a while. So if I keep running it and just don’t update it, that would suddenly be illegal? Geus it is time to see how my for relay is doing.
If it actually did catch that many bad guy… would fuck regional court, complete overload. we have struggle deal with number of ukraine immigrant, now imagine deal with all the fake report because ai just bad?
The fuck is with these stupid bots that try to turn every conversation into “muh immigration”
I use immigration as example that our beurocracy in germany unable to handle any large load of work efficiently.
Germany’s workforce relies on immigration, your point has no sense
lol sure loser whatever
A fascist first world is easier for Russia and China than a free one
Originally governments wanted backdoors into encryption protocols, but now they seem to want client side scanning (i.e. scanning messages on your phone before it’s encrypted and sent out)
If I understand correctly, its what the NSA “allegedly” doesn’t do to U.S. citizens already. Except, these countries are being public about it. This way they can actually follow through without the “secret getting out”.
Folks, this should inspire you to start self-hosting a federated, decentralized chat server with freely available source code by yourself or with a small community. Governments can coerce these big, usually-corpo centralized servers to give up data but good luck if there are hundreds of thousands (of millions?) of small servers with 1–10 users on it & clients not controlled by a single entity for distribution (easier now that y’all coerced Mommy Apple to let you sideload applications & use alternative package managers).
All federated services grossly violate GDPR.
I mean, GDPR is a fucking disaster. Nobody is getting it right, same with cookie consent. This is because the last time geriatric imbeciles at the European parliament seen a computer was back at 98.
Since all those people are using it, it kinda doesn’t matter for them. As if not having their data harvested from every single click makes them not care about GDPR and the other bullshit. What a surprise.
How so?
If you’re federating the data to servers you don’t control, it’s impossible to guarantee deletion of it. GDPR requires that users be able to request deletion of their data
I knew about that, but I thought it only applied to personal information (with limitations with regards to there being some professional entity collecting it). If I make a statement to the press that goes on print, I cannot demand them recalling papers in order to be compliant with GDPR.
That being said, I am by no means very knowledgeable about this.
You don’t need to worry about data retention when you own the server & you are the only user. It’s the servers you or someone you know & trust don’t own where you should actually worry about this.
It’s also more problematic with all systems built on eventual consistency models, so best to avoid those since you’ll never be able to get the data dropped. Chat being ephemeral is good.
Sounds like GDPR is the problem then, not federated services.
Matrix I guess?
If you don’t trust matrix.org, then you can self host the server yourself. Plus, the article you included is outdated.
The Netherlands only remains “neutral” because of the clause that forces companies to detect unknown CSAM and/or “grooming” material (last time I checked). It’s only a matter of one or two countries that can make the difference, with most neutral countries probably having similarly “minor” objections.
once upon a time freedom of speech was a thing
As someone that is red/green colorblind… wut?
Did my best, but my European geography identity the best and may have missed a couple:
Germany & Poland oppose. Netherlands, Austria, Estonia, Slovenia and Czechia neutral. Portugal, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Greece support.
Fuck GDPR!
GDPR only legalized data collection!
Don’t take my word for it, just look for how many “vendors” you are forced to agree with when accessing almost all websites. Add to this G**gle analytica and FB pixel and there you have it!
Full, “legal”, consented huge data collection and aggregation tracking the shit out of everyone for what?
Yes, now go figure how do you want your future and your kids future to look like!
Cheers!
Honestly I just wish I could take the steps written in the article but it would most likely be of no use.
I have very few close relationships and am not widely liked or popular by any means, don’t use social media because nobody sees my posts anyway, and the country I live in has a lot of media censorship, therefore the vast majority of the population is very conservative, uneducated and narrow-minded about most political topics.
I’ve been taking a lot of steps lately to reclaim my online privacy, and would hate to see it all thrown out the window by the EU, a union I thought was doing Europe justice before now…
On this map I see a Rastafarian llama with a duck for an ass and tail.
The Nederlands is the duck.
Huh.
