Chat surveillance law by the EU Parliament?

https://lemmy.ml/post/16672524

Chat surveillance law by the EU Parliament? - Lemmy

The results are showing up… Now we have to hope for the law to be declined… Already discussed about the chat control law of the EU, here : https://lemmy.ml/post/16469106 [https://lemmy.ml/post/16469106]

I thought the chat control law idea kinda died already

nope, they’ll vote on it again in the few weeks. if it passes, e2ee messengers will be required to scan images on device before sending them. you will be able to not agree to that, but then you won’t be able to send or receive media and links, only text.

www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

Chat Control: The EU's CSAM scanner proposal

🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0, stopchatcontrol.fr🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇩🇰 Danish: chatcontrol.dk🇳🇱 Dutch: Chatcontrole Table of contents: The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence and the End of Anonymous Communication Take action to stop Chat

Patrick Breyer
What does “scan” mean here?
Chat Control: The EU's CSAM scanner proposal

🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0, stopchatcontrol.fr🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇩🇰 Danish: chatcontrol.dk🇳🇱 Dutch: Chatcontrole Table of contents: The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence and the End of Anonymous Communication Take action to stop Chat

Patrick Breyer
I read that and hoped further elaboration.
In fact it would be “scanned” by AI for searching all the kinda sexual, abusive stuff… In fact to protect children
But the link described it as if it’ll do database matching to find well-known images.
That’s why it’s a scan, like done apple with their gallery. Scan signatures, AI recognition etc…

No, what I’ve interpret from the webpage is far more basic. Just matching images, almost like pixel-by-pixel. If you think about it, legally describing your interpretation (Apple’s gallery) is very challenging and is thus possibly infeasible.

As a result, my feeling is that the EU is going with a far inferior method that doesn’t have to send images to the server.