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Proton Jun 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 […]

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Point051 Jun 21, 2024

@protonprivacy so ridiculous. Who do they think these people would be talking *to?* do their spouses also get exemption? Mistresses? Informants? Parents? Think about it for five seconds, people.

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@Gothilla @protonprivacy
Probably yes to some degree, but I can imagine people in these circles know how to protect sensitive information and have a bunch of safeguards offered by gov and gov agencies just for them by virtue of their position. And I think people in those positions know if information leaks it can cost their whole carrier easily.
I would rather care about the citizens who are going to be the primary target of mass surveillance as it's always time and time again was the case.