HUGE WIN FOR PRIVACY!

Today there will be the final votes for chat control.

This implies that all of our private chats will be scanned, and everything we do will be in plain text in front of their eyes.

If it passes, I will permanently stop using centralized messaging platforms and switch to a self hosted matrix session, I don't care if I lose many contacts, if they really want to talk to me they better install fluffychat and shut the fuck up.

It's crazy how the EU was basically the goat for internet privacy and now they are the villains.

Are you ready for this? For the absolute end of privacy?

For now the EU is safe from Chat Control! Until next time that is!

P.S. Thank you for the award!

I honestly think the EU is failing. On one hand, they claim to protect citizens from corporate surveillance; on the other, they seem intent on spying on individuals themselves. With their push for chat control and backdoored encryption, the more I learn about the EU, the more I find myself opposing it.

I care much more about government surveillance because you can’t opt out of it. You can choose not to use social media or Big Tech, but you can’t escape state oversight. I’ve de-Googled my life, use only open-source operating systems and tech, and have opted out of all social media platforms except for Reddit, where I use an anonymous account.

Honestly, the EU is hypocritical. They condem China and Russia for their surveillance states while trying to build the exact same systems at home."

Canada (House of Commons) just passed bill C-22 today, joining the ranks of countries quickly cranking up the dial on becoming a surveillance authoritarian state. It feels almost like a lose-lose situation because this is happening in every single country that was supposed to be the bastion of "Western democracy". Is there an exception anywhere?

Edit: A summary about what happened to bill C-22 in Canada, in the interest of being responsible with my post: the bill still needs to pass Senate and receive royal ascent to become law in Canada. However, the concern stems from how it was bruce-forced through the third hearing and passed the House of Commons: members were barred from debating, discussing, or asking questions about the amendments in the bill, and there was no individual vote as MPs left for the summer.

Contact your local representatives https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

"The majority of states supported the compromise proposal. At least 15 voted in favor, including Germany and France. Germany "welcomed both the removal of mandatory measures and the permanent anchoring of voluntary measures," according to the minutes"

Denmark has officially won over Germany.

Reach out to your representatives on https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

I'm worried about my privacy, and this chat control thing is obviously NOT, about children. So what can I do?​

Context for those not up to speed: The EU Parliament is currently considering legislation that would require companies providing private communication services (both encrypted and unencrypted) to mandatorily scan all content in order to identify CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material). Although the proposal might sound reasonable at first glance, the entire concept opens the door to mass illegal surveillance and scanning of content beyond the scope of CSAM. It would also mark the end of end-to-end encrypted content and private communication as we know it.

At the meeting held on September 29, EU negotiators failed to reach a final agreement introducing permanent mass scanning of private correspondence, which is a direct result of continued public pressure and the determination of the European Parliament's negotiation team not to yield on preserving private communication.

However, the battle is far from over! The next round of negotiations is planned for October or November of this year. If you hold citizenship of one of the EU member states or know someone who does, please send an email to your country's representatives via the official page for fighting Chat Control 2.0 expressing your opposition to this proposal: https://fightchatcontrol.eu. The process is automated and takes only a few minutes.

I know a lot of people might have already posted about this

I'm not someone very into technology and stuff

I was wondering if this is like definitive ?

Only 4 country voted against it, and if Eu start, what will stop others countries in the world

I'm actually in Eu, in a country that voted for the mass scan

And I'm a bit panicking because everything they say about it is messy

If someone had the time to explain to me if there's hope for this , what can we do against it and how it'll affect my usual use of social media?

Meta announced that IG will officially discontinue end-to-end encryption feature on May 8th.

All DMs will be decrypted once it reaches Meta's servers.

https://cybersecuritynews.com/instagram-end-encryption-direct-messages/amp/

I was using a temporary chat on Grok and searched a topic through Google Keyboard (Gboard). The topic was sperm donation.

I never said it out loud. I never searched it in Chrome. I just typed it inside that temporary chat.

A short while later, Instagram started showing me sperm donation ads.

Maybe it's a coincidence. Maybe it's ad targeting working in ways I don't understand.

But it made me wonder: if a chat is temporary, where exactly does the signal come from?

Has anyone experienced something similar?

We have less than a day before the vote, so please, in the name of privacy, for our rights, I invite each and every one of you to to go https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ and write to the representative of all nations (it takes 10min), the website will take care of writing a letter for you.

Thanks if you do, thanks if you have already done it and see you from the other side.

There's like no media coverage AT ALL on the revised plan by the EU parliament. How did people let this slip through? And why are there countries with almost all parliament members opposing the decision but still ​agreeing with it on a country level, where is the democracy?

They're​ fining opposing countries now, how​ is this even legal?

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

https://www.politico.eu/article/polish-president-karol-nawrocki-tech-bill-veto-eu-fine/

As the title implies, I am curious as to whether there might be any messaging apps/services worth using in case the proposed chat control law gets passed. As you might assume, I live in an EU member state and am extremely worried for the future of our rights to online as well as IRL privacy in case such laws get passed

This is regarding EU chat control... which is unfortunately likely to be approved sometime this week. Very scary stuff up ahead and I'd like to be prepared...