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‘Let yourself be monitored’: EU governments to agree on Chat Control with user “consent” [updated] (www.patrick-breyer.de)

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

This proposal is bonkers. Imagine aaaall the nudes that will have to be manually assessed by police (until they outsource it because it's cheaper), and then you have to believe they won't keep anything and that there are zero bad apples.

Besides, if the tools are already in place in the apps, it's only a question of time before the detection system is repurposed for censorship of anything a totalitarian leaning government doesn't like. Memes about our dear leader? I'm afraid we can't allow that !

You can't have a backdoor that works for the good guys only.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago

repurposed for censorship of anything a totalitarian leaning government doesn’t like

It's basically guaranteed they use it against critical journalists, political opponents and activists right out of the gate. It's what always happens when they get the ability to spy on citizens. And the real criminals move to unofficial encrypted platforms mostly out of reach of law enforcement.