Chat Control: EU will see your private messages
euroweeklynews.comEU governments have finally agreed on a controversial new law that gives a backdoor to reading text messages and viewing photo messages
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Every single person that voted in favour must be held on corruption charges. No running free.
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this also does nothing to pgp encrypted email, or criminal with a brain cell capable of encrypting the files before sending it
Matrix will not be affected. At all.
CP is just a pretext here.
Everyone who originally proposed this or otherwise helped in drafting this should be thoroughly investigated under suspicion of foreign affiliation. Chat Control doesn’t just start the EU’s transformation into a surveillance state. It also weakens its digital defenses. No matter how you look at it, this is treason both towards the European people, as well as towards the individual countries and the Union as a whole.
https://x.com/martinsonneborn/status/1995182586612609241
So you’re telling me the one person who’s been making deals behind closed doors (illegal), and then ‘accidentally’ deleting all messages regarding said deals (also illegal) will be exempt from having all their communication scanned?
These pathetic morons think they’ll be safe through this exemption. In reality these deliberate security holes will affect everyone. How will these morons be safe when every person they have contact with IRL is a walking microphone for every foreign intelligence agency?
Dear mods, watch what you remove from these chats, our freedoms are getting fucked, people should be allowed to be indignant.
That being said i hope the legislators sit on cacti all day every day, those fucking assholes are exempt from this bullshit.
They will take my data out of my cold dead hands. It was a matter of time, sure, but I was actually holding on to hope for this one. I am pissed, dismayed even.
Session, signal, simplex are your friends. If those give up the ghost and bend the knee then we are going back to irc and aliases. Fucking shit!
Now let’s hope Parliament will still vote against it.
Caling your MEP is more efficient.
people miss the most important problem with this. chat control is a fascist tool that can and will be used against us minorities. this is especially dangerous when more and more countries are starting to lean right.
hitler would have had a field day with this kind of tech.
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Isn’t North Korea already a dangerous dictatorship with its citizens in a vice? I don’t think their benevolent leader needs to “get away” with any of the shit he does at this point, or what do you say? Is there any chance of overthrowing him?
It also makes what the Stasi in Socialist East Germany did to its citizens look harmless in comparison. It’s literally Big Brother, but you carry him around with you.
Danes are fascist, they pushed it through.
danes are sucking thiels cock for their own wicked reasons.
as we’ve always said; never trust a dane!
Danes have been quite xenophobic lately.
Not even Signal saves
Matrix would be the best alternative
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leggendo sul sito fightchatcontrol.eu/ sembra che l’italia sia già contraria
Sisi lo so, go guardato.
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OK I’m getting a flip phone
I thought making calls and sending SMS was one of the least secure things you could do regarding communication? That secure and encrypted communication with messaging apps was the only way.
Now we have nothing. 😐
At least if you just do phone calls the attack surface is reduced… They can scan your calls maybe, but not your entire chat history with all of your contacts and give it to an AI which could profile you based on that + you are not scanned on everything else you do on your phone / locked into proprietary ecosystems.
The ideal would just be using a Linux platform and using something like xmpp, but who are you gonna convince to use it? People use what they are used to use, if it’s not popular messaging apps is phone calls… And now it seems a more private alternative…
Just get an Pixel 9a from a local shop, install GrapheneOS on it and use it as your primary.
Can confirm, the 9s are the best phones. Love my Pro.
And here I was thinking the EU was winning its fight against authoritarianism. Guess nowhere is safe, everyone’s gotta push back no matter where you are. Fucking exhausting that they can’t just leave us the fuck alone.
Sociopaths will be sociopaths. They’ll continue saying that protesting and violece are never the answer, while eroding our basic rights and ignoring all pushback.
When people rise up: “How dare you destroy property value!”
We are embracing authoritarianism everywhere. Democracies are dying.
Politicians are not ignorant of the risks; as the article mentions, they had several advisors, including scientists, who warned of the danger. If our leaders didn’t know it, they wouldn’t exclude themselves from the proposal.
Politicians and cops are THOSE who do this.
Fuck politicians on the right. ACAB, ACAB!
The one good thing of brexit: UK isn’t beholden to this.
The bad thing is that their own laws aren’t much better. And of course all the other brexit bad stuff
From the Online Safety Act Wikipedia page:
Why? Why is the loss of such a significant amount of privacy necessary?
Literally pedophiles.
People will figure out that the war in Ukraine actually started before 2014.
It isn’t necessary.
It isn’t it’s just an excuse to put people you don’t like in some kind of hole where they rot to death.
If chat control would have been made mandatory, you can bet (and i’d be willing to bet a lot of money on it) that you’re going to have AfD in germany and FPÖ in austria (since they’re already pretty anti-EU) making a lot of noise about how evil the EU is for infringing on people’s privacy. (And they would be right about this, as much as i don’t like to agree with them.) This would give them more votes, than they already have.
Making it voluntary is a clever trick of the EU to not make yourself extremely unpopular among the population. Well done, i’d say.
It seems the article is misinterpreting things. It’s not that it’s “voluntary for individual EU states”… but rather “voluntary” for service providers. The service providers don’t have to implement this chat detection if they don’t want to.
The thing is that if they don’t pass something like this, then by April 2026 a bunch of current services that are already doing CP detection would be breaking the law, since the temporary derogation of the e-Privacy Directive will expire. But I don’t think this affects services like signal/simplex who voluntarily choose to not try to detect it.
AfD is already #1 party in Germany
If they work anything like the far right in the U.S., they’ll raise hell about it til they get elected then implement it themselves.
Orban’s Hungary is in favour, after all.
I long for the day that he dies.
Exactly the play, not just in America, but all capitalist backed politicians. Left and right wing
That’s weird, our fascists in France are all against privacy, unless it’s theirs.
Wow, this is bad. I thought this was over when Germany chose not to support it. Apparently not!
I believe Germany is now in favor of this new proposal, according to https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
Only Italy, Netherlands, Czech Republic and Poland are against. This seems to be based on “leaked documents from the September 12 meeting of the EU Council’s Law Enforcement Working Party”.
Show is not over until the fat lady sings.