About Alex Pretti, from his childhood friend.
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"Ireland proposes new law allowing police to use spyware"
"The Irish government announced that it wants to pass a law that would grant police more surveillance powers, such as using spyware to fight serious crime, while aiming to protect the privacy rights of its citizens."
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/ireland-proposes-new-law-allowing-police-to-use-spyware/
Dear #Europe and european leaders.
On one hand you want to implement chat control. This is, as I've understood it, an #EU proposed law.
On the other hand you want to introduce the Cyber Resilience Act, fully implemented in 2027.
They can't coexist.
The Cyber Resilience Act - Summary of the legislative text | Jacob Saaby Nielsen
Dear #Europe and european leaders. On one hand you want to implement chat control. This is, as I've understood it, an #EU proposed law. On the other hand you want to introduce the Cyber Resilience Act, fully implemented in 2027. In the CRA in chapter 2, in Manufacturer Obligations you write: "When designing, developing and producing the product with digital elements, the manufacturer needs to ensure that it meets the essential cybersecurity requirements. To this end, the manufacturer is required to perform a cybersecurity risk assessment, which informs the implementation of the essential requirements and needs to be taken into account during the planning, design, development, production, delivery and maintenance phases of the product. If the manufacturer integrates third-party components, it needs to exercise due diligence so that those components do not compromise the cybersecurity of its product with digital elements." This is in direct contradiction with the chat control proposal. Both can't exist at the same time, as chat control makes what would have been fully end to end encrypted content available to a 3rd party service before sending. Effectively ending the purpose of the encryption and rendering end to end encryption useless, thereby 100% compromising the security of the product. I just thought it's worth noting that you're introducing two laws that can't coexist. Introduce the CRA. Forget chat control. It will never work. And in a world where some allies turn out to be anything but, we don't need weakened security. Please share. Help make EU a safer place. https://lnkd.in/dwCXdm8X Ursula von der Leyen Dina Raabjerg Tuta | Secure Email & Calendar Proton Threema Signal Messenger Element - creators of Matrix Wire #privacy #security #cyberresiliencyact #davos
Electronic Frontier FoundationWith an annual budget that is 10 times the size of the agency’s total surveillance spending for the last 13 years, ICE is going on a shopping spree, creating one of the largest, most comprehensive domestic surveillance machines in history. Here’s what they are buying. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/ice-going-surveillance-shopping-spree
ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree
We need to have a hard look at the surveillance industry. It is a key enabler of vast and untold violations of human rights and civil liberties, and it continues to be used by aspiring autocrats to threaten our very democracy. As long as it exists, the surveillance industry, and the data it generates, will be an irresistible tool for anti-democratic forces.