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Can you please link an article or something explaining what you're going on about? When was this announced?
Edit: guessing it's related to this. https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2023/06/eu-member-states-still-cannot-agree-about-end-end-encryption
If so, banning E2EE because of CSAM is like cutting off your hand because you stubbed your toe. Banning E2EE won't stop child porn nor will it prevent the use of E2EE.
Unfortunately, It's not about ending CSAM. It's about ending encryption.
If they cared about ending CSAM they'd ban...checks headlines...police officers
What? Why?
lots of headlines recently of cops getting busted. reading through the articles, it looks like some cloud backup provider for verizon phones started scanning, and filed reports, which led to investigations, which lead to tracking down the phone, which led them to a cop's house. many such cases follow that same pattern.
police work attracts people who like to abuse power, so we shouldn't be to suprised tbh
Yes, [https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-2-0-eu-governments-set-to-approve-the-end-of-private-messaging-and-secure-encryption/](https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-2-0-eu-governments-set-to-approve-the-end-of-private-messaging-and-secure-encryption/ This is exactly how I feel I don’t understand the logic behind this at all.
Understanding is simple. Every few years, 5 or 8 or 10, there's a big marketing push and brain wash around trying to destroy encryption by using the excuse of CSAM. Nothing new, a play as old as ever. It's basically (and really the whole point) trying to pass mass surveillance into law hoping that people forget the arguments of the last time or that people are not paying attention or trying to put it wrapped into a different gift wrapping and see if it goes into effect before anyone notices. The time frames for these things are getting smaller and smaller and more and more people don't care at all about privacy and basic rights and are ok with things like mass surveillance. It will eventually pass.
It's a real shame the eu is doing this. I've agreed with most of their policies recently regarding IT and phones.
I don't agree with that stupid cookie shit though.
I just felt that there was a lone voice of reason trying for a better future but I guess we are on our own.
As a fellow cookie warning hater, the Firefox extension "I don't care about cookies" is great. It'll dismiss the box.
And please keep the reminder that most cookie popups are not required and it's mostly bad actors/companies that keep insisting on being annoying by saying they are just complying when in fact they are forcing all that on purpose on us users so we turn out heads to hate on the law instead.
EU is not doing it yet, however there is strong push from interested parties within and outside of the EC:
https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the-eus-fight-over-scanning-for-child-sex-content
Including illegal use of targeted advertising / misinformation campaign:
https://eupolicy.social/@ilumium/111226868912928077