Chat Control is not dead. The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos
The “Chat Control” proposal would legalise scanning of all private digital communications, including encrypted messages and photos. This threatens fundamental privacy rights and digital security for all EU citizens.
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Fuck sake, it has been told time and time again that this is a bad idea!
They will push until it eventually goes through. I’m in the tinfoily prepation mode, better get a head start than act surprised in a few years when this finally passes.
How have you chosen to prepare for this?
Nokia prepaid dumbphone as my main, not any fancy remade stuff but a really old brick with new battery. I’m hoarding DVD’s, games, music and books. Making my own digital copies of them. Learning to use all the services the local library provides. Slowly building a new Linux PC that will eventually be turned into an offline DVD-player that runs basic games. (I can then do banking and such at the library PC or in the actual bank.)
You don’t need to play along, but you can if you choose to.
I’m not very knowledgable about technology but ever since all of this + the push of ID verification online around the globe I’ve started to grow a small analog collection of games/books/DVDs. It’s the easiest way to prepare oneself for worst case scenarios even if one doesn’t know every detail.
Absolutely! It brings peace of mind. And here used CDs and DVD’s cost around 1-2€ per piece so when the streaming services just keep deleting their content and jacking up the prices at the same time, it feels whole lot better and saves money in the long run. It’s fun to exchange movies with the friends too! Or to bring a physical disc to a movie night.
I have bought a few boardgames too to play with the family and friends. It something I have just thought that “it could be fun” but never have gotten around to or actually bothered to play… Now I have gotten around and bothered and it has been a lot of fun!
But a dumbphone surely has no encryption. Texts and calls over GSM can be readily read by the carrier and government. You would have to be extremely diligent not to slip any information that would identify you, but even if you dont you are still creating an alternate persona for data gathering entities.
So? You think I say or write anything important on the phone? Why would anyone? It’s for “on the way honey” or “honey do we need more beer?” kinda communication. For proper communication I write letters, emails or meet in person. Phones are the most suckiest way of communication.
Unfortunately, they only need to succeed once…😞
I’m completely pro chat control. To make it more accepted, we just need to show that it’s a good idea and lead by example! That’s why I propose, to completely publish all communications of our politicians and those that they communicate with. This content trove will be reviewed with AI* to make sure that there are no bad guys hiding in the government, right? As always, if they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear!
* AI - Audience Interest: every one of us is free to analyze everything and publish and discuss their findings publicly.
/s?
Last time they pushed for this, the politicians planned to exempt themselves from the surveillance they’d force on everyone else:
How is it possible to get parties into power that put this into law?
Just lobby and bribe harder than those guys that want to see Chat Control happening ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance…, but fuck, every goddamn year?
Yup keep going guys it’s not going to get easier but fighting for your freedoms and principles is important.
Just look at what apathy gets you as an alternative. Just rejoice in the fact that you have access to lawmakers and you can influence the process by being active.
It seems like shit but one we give in then it will pass.
Write to your mps sign some petitions, it seems like a chore but store then you care.
More than that! Last time was in October/November it i remember correctly
Gorram, seemed nearby. There needs to be protection against lobbyists (could stop here) pushing the same crap that got shot down already, again and again. Throwing shit against the wall to see what sticks is for bluesky development, not governance.
For a few, true freedom requires the enslavement of many.
The liberal democratic experiments are dying at the hands of their own owners. Turns out History didn’t end.
For a few, true freedom requires the enslavement of many.
The needs of the many outweigh the desires of the few. With guillotines if necessary.
Yes, but the few have bought all the guillotines already.
Business opportunity! Ikea Guillotines!
I really wish there was some sort of rule that stated that if your proposal failed it gets blacklisted for the next 10 years, regardless of the framing of the proposal.
Wouldn’t work either as they are -very obviously here- just ignoring the rules anyway.
If they can ignore it it’s not a rule.
No, it just means that there is noone to enforce it.
A rule that isn’t enforced is a rule that doesn’t exist. No matter how many words are written on a paper.
Chat are we cooked?
Ffs, the world is collapsing and we talk about this kind of shit…again.
The Epstein class, that is causing the world to collapse, is also behind chat control and age verification.
They’re gunning for totalitarian dictatorship.
The more unstable the world becomes, the more frequent and aggressive moves towards authoritarianism will be.
What was the method again to ensure that undead vampires do not leave their grave after their burial? Seems a little ritual needs to be added to the proceedings…
On the bill or the politicians?
Both, both is good
Goddammit
How do they plan to get past encryption?
They will make it illegal, or they will force mandatory backdoors into it. It will be hacked within days, and they will blame “left wing extremism.”
Probably mandatory scanning on device before encryption. Will destroy all privacy focused apps.
In this case, privacy-focused apps would just not implement it, as it’s the voluntary chat control “1.0” which we already had before. Of course, it would probably be used to eventually have another go at the mandatory scanning again.
Yes, I’m a bit less worried about chat control “1.0” as it at least still allows one to choose services that don’t participate (I seem to recall reading somewhere that no encrypted services actually reported anything under 1.0 but have no source for it). Of course it is still not good.
Biggest problem is that they are also discussing chat control 2.0 that would force privacy focussed apps to basically shut down or comply.
You’ll only have privacy if everyone you talk to also uses a private server and a noncompliant client app that’s relatively hard to get. The chances are that your carefully encrypted texts just get scooped up after decryption at the other end. And if they get it built into mobile OSs so that apps can’t bypass it, even that won’t work.
I guess the only solution then would be to set up your own server with Nextcloud, Matrix etc.
Good ol’ moving the overton window.
The easiest would be to let the OS grab the keys of every connection and transmit them to the government.
For everybody with their own OS, they can use the backdoors on the chips to get the keys.
Or just make life unpleasant for you because you use a different OS, maybe by adding you to a terrorism list.
Just another tuesday in the corrupt union :(
See you next tuesday suckers.
This kinda shit makes me glad we left. Then I look at our own government, it’s just as bad!
Sorry but the UK is still like 10x worse even if Chat Control would pass.
Yeah, the UK adopted 1984 as an instruction manual ages ago. I last visited it almost 20 years ago, but even then, the level of public surveillance alone was already ridiculous.
