ProtonJun 20, 2024

"The fact that the EU interior ministers want to exempt police officers, soldiers, intelligence officers and even themselves from chat control scanning proves that they know exactly just how unreliable and dangerous the snooping algorithms are that they want to unleash on us citizens."

https://www.eureporter.co/business/data/mass-surveillance-data/2024/04/15/leak-eu-interior-ministers-want-to-exempt-themselves-from-chat-control-bulk-scanning-of-private-messages/

Leak: EU interior ministers want to exempt themselves from chat control bulk scanning of private messages

According to the latest draft text of the controversial EU Child Sexual Abuse Regulation proposal leaked by the French news organisation Contexte, EU interior ministers want to exempt professional accounts of staff of intelligence agencies, police and military from the envisaged scanning of chats and messages (Article 1 (2a)). The regulation should also not apply […]

Show threadRobJun 20, 2024
@protonprivacy The EU behaving like the SS...most people on the street don't even know about chat control, or that such a thing is being talked about, and that they're using CSAM to push it through, when it'll actually make investigations harder. Then again many things the EU decide, many people only know about when its all been decided.
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@robchapman @protonprivacy Even if it was perfectly safe and effective at the stated goal of preventing csam, the fact that there's any exceptions at all means that the people looking to commit such a sin are just gonna work towards getting into an exemt position so in the mid to long term that just gonna result in all the pedos becoming officers, soldiers and politicians so we end up with the criminals putting themselves in charge of percecuting the crime.
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Show threadRobJun 21, 2024
@StaticR @protonprivacy Its not right however you frame it, but using kids as your lever, shows they really don't have any interest in kids, just in wholesale collection of every private word made electronically. Criminal networks will simply go back underground - I guess the crime stats will be lower, so they can then say "They did their job!"
Its telling that when the EU presidency rotates to Hungary,, that they are chomping at the bit to build a framework and progress this mass surveillance!