🇪🇺 🚨Final negotiations on Chat Control 2.0 just started between the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the Council of the EU.

What is good:

✅ Encryption will not be broken

What is bad:

❌ Commission & Council want #IDchecks

Lots of journalists, whistleblowers, activists and dissidents choose Tuta to protect their identity. We hope the European Parliament will stick to their decision to oppose mass #surveillance and #censorship.

More on Chat Control: https://tuta.com/blog/chat-control-criticism

Huge Victory: Chat Control no longer forces us to break encryption! But: It now wants age verification. | Tuta

The EU Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse, first published in May 2022, has become the "most criticized law of all time". Here's how to stop it now!

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Did anyone else notice how #Ageverification through #IDchecks was mandatory BEFORE E2EE

Also notice that no #E2EE services are carding people? that's why you all need to keep voicing your opposition to #ChatControl

A #BackDoor for anyone is a back door for everyone

Victory! California Bill To Impose Mandatory Internet ID Checks Is Dead—It Should Stay That Way

A misguided bill that would have required many people to show ID to get online has died without getting a floor vote in the California legislature, where key deadlines for bill passage passed this weekend. Thank you to our supporters for helping us to kill this wrongheaded bill, especially those of...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

📖 Great article about the pitfalls to this approach.

It's surveillance games dressed up as 'protect the children'. | @eff

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/california-lawmakers-should-reject-mandatory-internet-id-checks

#idchecks #privacy #surveillance

California Lawmakers Should Reject Mandatory Internet ID Checks

California lawmakers are debating an ill-advised bill that would require internet users to show their ID in order to look at sexually explicit content. EFF has sent a letter to California legislators encouraging them to oppose Assembly Bill 3080, which would have the result of censoring the...

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#Tories plan to force #IDchecks for postal and proxy votes in future #elections

Another small nudge on the road to #fascism. Small steps is how it happens…

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tories-plan-force-id-checks-30058250

Tories plan to force ID checks for postal and proxy votes in future elections

Despite calls to suspend the controversial in-person voter ID - after thousands were turned away at the May election - the Government has announced new measures

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