Time is running out.

On Sept 12, EU countries vote on chat control - a law that would make every messaging app scan your private chats before you even hit send.

Only six countries openly oppose it right now. Germany and several others are still undecided. MEPs from different parties are warning this is mass surveillance on everyone.

I'm terrified my kids will grow up in a world where every private thought gets scanned before they can share it. You can't have democracy without free speech, and you can't have free speech under surveillance.

https://fightchatcontrol.eu

#privacy #e2ee #chatcontrol #HumanRights #security

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

@watchfulcitizen
Freedome of speach does not equal freedom to perform illegal actions.
If ppl want to express fe. "How to rape a child" in some chat, they should be STOPPED period, because that can not be considered "free speach".
Same with other kind of illegal stuff.

Do you understand?

#privacy #e2ee #chatcontrol #HumanRights #security

@TriMoon I think I understand your point.

However, child protection experts who work with abuse cases every day actually oppose this proposal because it won't catch predators but will harm kids. The scanning creates security holes that make everyone including children more vulnerable. The technical reality is predators will simply use different apps while millions of innocent messages get scanned. Even with 99% accuracy that's still thousands of false reports daily overwhelming investigators.

Multiple children's rights organizations have written letters opposing this specifically because it diverts resources from proven protection methods. They're asking for funding for actual help programs instead. The proposal even includes a review clause admitting they plan to expand scanning later.

If you spend just 10 minutes researching this you'll find every encryption expert explains why this approach makes children less safe not more safe. It's a trojan horse where the child protection angle sounds good but that's where it stops.

This whole thing is a massive danger to democracy for everyone everywhere.

@watchfulcitizen
I only gave an example with child abuse, what i described applies to ALL illigal activity.

And that argument that they will just shift to other means is void also, because following that thought you might as well get rid of ALL-LAWS.
Sorry to say but that WONT happen.
There are laws for a reason and those that choose not to abide by them will just pay the consequences.
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@watchfulcitizen
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In real life ppl will just get LYNCHED by the community until law enforcement "rescues" them from the population.
Why would the digital world be a place where no penalties and laws exist?

No they need to do those scans to protect the innocent ones, no matter if ill minded ppl oppose it or not.

If they want to keep their "privacy" in this regard in the digital world, they should do the same as they would in real life, eg. Just STFU or pay the consequences.

@TriMoon @watchfulcitizen This is bullshit, actually, because what is written here about real-life laws is a lie, specifically: in real life there are laws, which are enshrined in constitutions no less, which protect secrecy of correspondence.

Thus, if you want to project real-life laws onto digital space, you also need to guarantee secrecy of correspondence in digital space. Unless you explicitly want to violate real-life constitutional laws of several countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy_of_correspondence

Secrecy of correspondence - Wikipedia