By making a minor concession EU governments hope to find a majority next week to approve the controversial „chat control“ bill. According to the proposed child sexual abuse regulation (CSAR), providers of messengers, e-mail and chat services would be forced to automatically search all private messag

This would probably fit in better in the technology community and I’m pretty sure it has been shared already, so sorry for the duplicate, especially since it was already on the !privacyguides@lemmy.one and and !europe@feddit.de communities.

I found it interesting because just a few months ago The Linux Experiment made a video that I shared and, while that video was talking about laws in France that I believed at the time would lead to eventually banning encrypted apps it now appears that the possibility of that is now looming over us…moreso after what happened in Arras.

Edit (in French) https://www.numerama.com/tech/1533652-attaque-a-arras-darmanin-vise-les-messageries-et-leur-chiffrement.html

Yes, the attack in Arras is being used as a reason to consider banning encrypted chat apps like Signal and WhatsApp.

  •  library_napper   ( @library_napper@monyet.cc ) 
    10•8 months ago

    Maybe that’s good that Wire moved to the US.

    Buy honestly I dont see how this could pass. It would be terrible for the privacy of both children and adults. In general the EU has done great work on digital privacy rights recently

    •  bbbhltz   ( @bbbhltz@beehaw.org ) OP
      8•8 months ago

      But this law is for the protection of children. It was inevitable, in my opinion as a somewhat informed layman, that it would come to this. It was either going to be about protecting children or something to do with terrorism.

      Many FOSS users will find it easy to adapt. We have some choices, and a few countries are trying to block it. Here in France, people buy and sell drugs on Twitter and Instagram thinking they’re being sneaky with their codewords like “broccoli” and “chocolate” so they won’t notice a difference. They think Snapchat is private cause the messages disappear.

      We just want our data stored here.