Posted by rapnie 8 hours ago
Is there any EU law that prohibits minors from encrypting their messages or using, for example, PGP keys?
How can they protect children if the children deliberately encrypt their messages?
This vote was urgently scheduled for today, the last day of parliament before the summer break. 113 MEPs were not present for this vote, likely having taken vacation days to extend their break. It's hard to believe choosing to do the vote today was done accidentally.
-- EU policy makers are really honest people, hats off to them. There's no way politicians in my country allow their chats to be scanned, because they're very corrupt.
(Edit: seems that the statement above applies to ChatControl 2.0, not the approved text. Apologies.)
>*EU politicians exempt themselves from this surveillance under "professional secrecy" rules. They get privacy. You and your family do not.
https://8bitsecurity.com/posts/chat-control-2-0-%E2%80%93-ho...
Who is working on that? I suspect the main challenge is not technical, but human - persuading users to switch messenger apps is almost impossible.
Spain would label you criminal for merely using alternative Android builds: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-organized-crim...
True P2P implies knowing the IP addresses of the people you're talking to.
Only the server operators then know your IP, and they don't know who you are or what you're saying.
Such a weak reasoning and method which they used to push this is ridiculous agenda lead me to strongly suspect there must be something else behind it.