Stop playing games with online security, Signal president warns EU lawmakers | TechCrunch
techcrunch.comA controversial European Union legislative proposal to scan the private messages of citizens in a bid to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is a
Follow-up to last week’s story:
https://lemmy.ml/post/16672524
EDIT1: Politicians expect to be be exempt.
EDIT2: Good news: Vote has been postponed due to disagreements.
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change one pixel and suddenly it doesn’tmatch. Do the comparison based on similarity instead and now you’re back to false positives
My guess was that this law was going to permit something as simple as pixel matching. Honestly I don’t imagine they can codify in the law something more sophisticated. Companies don’t want false positives either, at the very least due to profits.