EU parliament votes against scanning of private chats (www.patrick-breyer.de)
from mattyroses@lemmy.today to privacy@lemmy.ml on 12 Mar 12:13
https://lemmy.today/post/49179272

cross-posted from: lemmy.today/post/49179218

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XTL@sopuli.xyz on 12 Mar 12:43 next collapse

It’ll be back.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de on 12 Mar 12:54 next collapse

Around 99% of all chat reports sent to police in Europe come from a single US corporation: Meta. US tech giants are acting as private auxiliary police forces—without any effective European oversight.

Thats very interesting. Assuming that whatsapp is actually e2ee that means instagram, facebook and threads account for 99% of all chat reports. That means all dms on there have been getting scanned. Sounds like people should leave those platforms.

lumen@feddit.nl on 12 Mar 13:11 next collapse

Not true for WhatsApp. It has a report function that forwards the last 5 messages in the conversation to Meta when used.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de on 12 Mar 14:41 next collapse

Didnt know that, i think i havent used it for over a decade.

bless@lemmy.ml on 12 Mar 15:01 collapse

Could it be that the client (who has the keys to decrypt the message) just forwards those messages when the report is sent?

lumen@feddit.nl on 13 Mar 16:50 collapse

Yes, that’s exactly how it works.

RblScmNerfHerder@lemmy.world on 12 Mar 16:22 next collapse

Yep. Ugh, garbage companies!

Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world on 12 Mar 19:10 collapse

Or maybe people are mislead by (and putting to much trust in) the term “end-to-end encryption”

Sure its encrypted in transit between you and the person you’re exchanging messages with.

But that doesnt mean the Whatsapp app itself isnt scanning your chats on the phone.

MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz on 12 Mar 13:03 next collapse

Thank fuck.

For now.

asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev on 12 Mar 13:46 next collapse

Once again. In a few months, they’ll do the same and this will repeat until the law passes.

voxel@feddit.uk on 12 Mar 16:08 collapse

You didn’t even understand the context. It’s about a law that already passed as temporarily and is about to run out.

Fossifoo@hexbear.net on 13 Mar 06:12 collapse

“Pressure is now mounting on EU governments to respect the MEPs’ vote” I do love Patrick for all the good work he does but <img alt="doubt" src="https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/821d2a6b-85a2-4b82-9582-73551ad53e8d.png">

dessalines@lemmy.ml on 12 Mar 16:22 next collapse

To do this effectively, they’d have to ban facebook/whatsapp, which are the two most popular chat apps in Europe.

WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works on 12 Mar 18:42 collapse

not really. there are several ways they could implement it

RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip on 12 Mar 17:11 next collapse

The push for Chat Control is heavily driven by foreign-funded lobby groups and tech vendors.

Scrollone@feddit.it on 12 Mar 19:33 next collapse

You don’t say!

huf@hexbear.net on 13 Mar 12:58 collapse

skill issue. have they thought about passing a “russian” (oooooh scary!) NGO law?

Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml on 13 Mar 02:46 next collapse

Is this AI generated?

It has an m-dash and uses the phrase “hard facts”.

1984@lemmy.today on 13 Mar 11:16 next collapse

Comes back again and again.

Twongo@lemmy.ml on 13 Mar 11:28 collapse

isn´t this like the 3rd time already? lol I talked to a few MEPs about chat control and other stuff - while the focus was on chat control the EU got this shit sneakily approved

hhg@discuss.tchncs.de on 13 Mar 13:12 collapse

Why is that bad? The linked article barely says anything

Twongo@lemmy.ml on 13 Mar 13:20 collapse

sorry, this should provide more context (german though)