📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
That sure means that the end-to-end encryption principle cease to exist and people needing secure and unbreakable comms will resort to e2e software written themselves or most likely, find an open source to modify it to their needs.
The problems governments want to solve isn't going away, It only gets totally out of sight. What a horrible dilemma. Sometimes I feel the EU parliament is filled with complete idiots.
If the current proposal* is formulated in any way near the previous attempts you would find that they clearly understand encryption being so important for privacy that they have made themselves exemptions to the proposal. They are talking about your conversations, not their own.
* = I haven’t actually read the current proposal in detail
I honestly, sadly, do not think they understand that. Most of them do not know what they are about to do, and/or the implications of it.
Also, if others take the same route as Signal intends to do (just for clarification: which is a stance I applaud) there will be no one else to have a chat with for the politicians either, encrypted or not, unless they conjure up their own service. But that would also remove the “one end is un-encrypted” dilemma.
https://fair.tube/w/72DCPMByyS1hoSg7gQFHXw
Here a good video explanation of the Max Plank Institute on how the technology of Chat Control works and what this would mean for digital communication within Europe.
In a major breakthrough for the digital rights movement, the German government has refused to back the EU's controversial Chat Control regulation yesterday after facing massive public pressure. The government did not take a position on the proposal. This blocks the required majority in the EU Counci
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