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Meredith Whittaker May 31, 2024

Signal strongly opposes the newest #ChatControl proposal in Europe.

Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees.

This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice.

It's surveillance wine in safety bottles.

See more: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/majority-for-chat-control-possible-users-who-refuse-scanning-to-be-prevented-from-sharing-photos-and-links/ @echo_pbreyer

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kainisenni May 31, 2024

@Mer__edith
I always wonder how one can be so incredibly dense to not understand that criminals don't care about making tools illegal. Do they imagine this to be their reasoning:
"Yeah I used to be a hitman. But now legal apps are scanning texts for indicators of murder. I'm not switching to illegal apps to communicate with my clients, that's a line I simply will not cross."

I'll have emigrated before this enters into force, but the precedent it could set scares me. This normalises CCP crap.

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kainisenni

I wanna add that this is not necessarily at criticism of the concept of European integration. And this is also not a European problem. People who don't know what they are doing are everywhere.
My (Dutch) government would 100% implement this if it wasn't an EU competency thing. They like using AI that assumes guilty until proven innocent. Nowhere is safe from incompetents being in places they shouldn't be.