Next Monday, the EU decides on Chat Control 2.0. Will they let the Trojan Horse through the gate and let Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn etc continue to scan all your messages?

We at Tuta say NO.

❌ No scanning
❌ No mass surveillance
❌ No age verification

Instead we fight for:

✅ Encryption
✅ Privacy
✅ Open Source

And so should the EU. Call your local representatives! 🥊

Privacy is not negotiable. Speak up now. ✊ #Privacy

Curious if your emails are safe? Check here which providers scan your data:
👉 https://tuta.com/blog/voluntary-scanning-google-microsoft
Gmail, Microsoft, Meta, LinkedIn: They already scan your messages - voluntarily! | Tuta

Voluntary Chat Control is already in place since 2021, named Regulation (EU) 2021/1232. Similar to scanning obligations in the UK and the USA, this regulation allows Big Tech to scan all your data. But what do services scan based on this regulation, do they also scan old messages, and what does this mean for data protection and privacy? A deep dive.

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@Tutanota Already 2021 , well.

@Tutanota "So at Tuta, your data will remain safe."

If only. Our outgoing emails still hit Microsoft, Google, and other Big Tech servers because doctors, lawyers, and other recipients of sensitive information use them. Even voluntary scans suck.

@placebo @Tutanota you are right, but you have a choice if you want to sent email to them.
What the EU wants to do is force scanning on email and chat.
And doctors offices etc should not use big tech.

@Crisper @Tutanota I’d argue that’s an illusion of choice because both doctors and lawyers can be booked months in advance and/or can be quite expensive, so email may be the only form of communication. That includes many other organizations, some of which might not even exist in your area for face-to-face contact.

Regarding your last point: perhaps there should be regulations that prohibit them from using insecure platforms such as gmail. Idk if the tech sovereignty package touches this topic.

@placebo @Crisper @Tutanota shouldn't be forcing big tech to act responsibly rather then forcing doctors?
@XandAl @placebo @Tutanota yes but they wont. And with chatcontrol they email providers, chat providers etc will be forced to can our private communication.
@Crisper @placebo @Tutanota they don't because we give up on forcing them to behave correctly, and instead we move focus on easier targets like doctors. That is why nothing ever changes. We are the ones that allow them to get away with it.
@XandAl @Crisper @Tutanota I don't see why we should choose between the two; that's a false dichotomy. Big Tech should be regulated, but those who handle sensitive information should do so in a safe and responsible manner, because regardless of how well we regulate US companies, the US government can and will use this information in its own interests.
@placebo @XandAl @Tutanota you are absolutely right, big tech should be regulated. But please tell me who in the US goverment would do that ? The president is using big tech in his trade wars, closing accounts if people he does not like.
And the intelligence services is also getting their data from big tech, why else did facebook remove the encryption on Messenger and Instagram?
What Tuta is fighting is EU law.
@XandAl @placebo @Tutanota yeah but who in the us goverment will force them?

@Crisper @placebo @Tutanota To "scan" unencrypted, plaintext e-mail is rather like kicking in an open door tho.

Chat, encrypted chat, is something else entirely. Unencrypted chat ... if in plaintext there is nothing to "scan"

@tina @placebo @Tutanota why do you thing tuta is fighting? If the EU forces providers of encrypted chat, mail etc ro build in a backdoor then its their forever, and the service is not secure, a backdoor cannot be created only for governments to spy on you.

@Crisper @placebo @Tutanota There IS no "encrypted mail" (well, only for one hop)

Kudos to them for fighting the idiocy, but let's focus.

@Tutanota yeah not every email provider is safe btw
@Tutanota E-mail is like postcards. Everyone knows that by now, for sure.

@Tutanota Member states happily accept it, it's the public being duped.

But also, the exclusion of politicians doesn't apply their whole life, right? The same politicians who are excluded at the moment will be surveilled after their tenure. All future politicians and security officers will have been already surveilled and likely compromised

#privacy #eupol

@Tutanota @kdekooter again?? How many times does this need to be turned down?
@haayman @Tutanota There are forces that keep on trying to shove this down our throats. Over and over again. And we need to keep fighting back.
@Tutanota how many times will they vote on this 
@Tutanota The fighting goes on - on both sides....
@Tutanota wait, isn't 2.0 being voted or am i misinformed?
@gruby @Tutanota 2.0 is being negotiated, Tuta corrected their post

@Tutanota

The EU should kick out Microsoft, Google and AI. These Corporations are the reason for our daily trouble and climate issues.

@jackpearse @Tutanota The EU lacks the balls to do that, sadly.
@Tutanota Wait it wasn't Chat Control 2.0? I thought the 1.0 was dead
@juno0 @Tutanota it is about the 2.0 I think, but whatever the version is, we should contact with the shadow rapporteurs and the MEPs nevertheless
@Digol @juno0 Correct, it's Chat Control 2.0 - we got mixed up... Sorry!

@Tutanota @juno0 No problem, what is important is that you are spreading awareness.

Thank you ✨

@Tutanota @Digol no need to apologise but thanks for spreading awareness and going against those bad structured laws

@Tutanota

Wishing you all luck from the U.S. We're fighting it over here too.

@Tutanota @hyde What doesn't make sense to me is the EU doing this but also raising the alarm about being reliant on these same American companies. Like, hello? Are they using their brains?
@netopwibby some moles there paid by bigtech probably ... and all of them are not on the same page apparently 🤷 @Tutanota

infact, @Tutanota takes "no scanning" so seriously that on the free teir you aren't allowed to search for mails older than 2 months  

and as soon as you try to tap on the date range a fullscreen subscription banner appears that even pesters you when you want to back out of it  

hey, tuta, i know about a dozen friends now who, once they could pay for an email provider switched to posteo instead of a paid tuta teir. i'll probably do the same soon. food for thought nya~