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- foss
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- europe@feddit.de
- Melatonin ( @Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English44•9 months ago
If you don’t have anything to hide, then let them have your privacy. If you don’t, well then, you’re a suspected terrorist or child predator.
The logic is impeccable.
Edit: I WAS being sarcastic, but I guess I was getting upvotes from people who like the EU position as well.
Win-win.
- AdminWorker ( @AdminWorker@lemmy.ca ) English11•9 months ago
I don’t suppose you own curtains?
- Baggins ( @baggins@beehaw.org ) English4•9 months ago
I
thinkhope they were being sarcastic.
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) English36•9 months ago
Naive. There must be more practical methods to counter child abuse. For example always holding people accountable when they are known to hurt children would be a good start.
- sibloure ( @sibloure@beehaw.org ) English36•9 months ago
It’s not about the children.
- GregorGizeh ( @GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ) English32•9 months ago
Its just pretense. Authoritarians want that data, corps want that data, so they push that legislation.
- captainastronaut ( @captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org ) English25•9 months ago
Stupid bastards. I hope Apple and WhatsApp and Signal all just turn off service in the EU. Let the users eat these assholes alive when their apps stop working.
- Azzy ( @AzzyDev@beehaw.org ) English22•9 months ago
What’s stopping someone from just sending public keys or something through Signal and encrypting their messages that way? There’s no way to enforce this with such simple loopholes present. We shouldn’t be focusing on breaking privacy and instead invest in helping existing victims in ways that actually matter.
- Norah - She/They ( @princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English3•9 months ago
Whilst I agree with your sentiment, this isn’t how end-to-end encrypted chats work. Otherwise, it would be impossible to know the messages you’re receiving are coming from the person you think they are.
- Azzy ( @AzzyDev@beehaw.org ) English1•9 months ago
I suppose you’re right, but forging that kind of thing would be difficult, also considering the PKI already in place. If someone has their own email server and they sign/encrypt their email, and host their public key on a key server somewhere, it’s highly unlikely that all three would be compromised. and even if that fails, you could just meet up with them and exchange flash drives with keys.
- silmarine ( @silmarine@beehaw.org ) English11•9 months ago
How does this affect people self hosting an encrypted chat service? Would those people be at risk of a police raid or something?
- Infiltrated_ad8271 ( @Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social ) 7•9 months ago
It only applies if there is any profit, even if it is a single ad for a single user.
- gjoel ( @gjoel@lemmy.ml ) English3•9 months ago
So not Signal, or…?
- Infiltrated_ad8271 ( @Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social ) 4•9 months ago
It shouldn’t, they are a non-profit foundation that is funded by donations. But take it with a grain of salt.
- halfempty ( @halfempty@kbin.social ) 7•9 months ago
Acts of authoritarian control always claim to be done “for the children”. They don’t care about children, they want control.
- shiveyarbles ( @shiveyarbles@beehaw.org ) English2•9 months ago
We value your privacy, as long as we can see it all