Is there any clarity about what the future with chat control will look like? As in what exactly apps will need to implement.

This part about self evaluation confuses me:

Under the new rules, online service providers will be required to assess how their platforms could be misused and, based on the results, may need to “implement mitigating measures to counter that risk,” the Council notes.

I assume all chat apps would have to take measures, since generic data can be sent through them, including CSAM. Or could this quote be interpreted otherwise? I wonder what exactly is meant by voluntary then.

Does this “mitigating measure” in practice mean sending a hash of each image sent through the messenger to some service built by Google or Apple for comparison against known CSAM? Since building a database of hashes to compare with is only realistically possible for the largest corporations. Or would the actual image itself have to leave the device, since it could be argued that some remote AI could identify any CSAM, even if it is not yet in any database? Perhaps some locally running AI model could do a decent enough job, so that nothing has to leave the device during the evaluation stage.

But then again, there will always be false positives, where an innocent person’s image would be uploaded to… the service provider (like Signal) for review? So you could never be sure that your communication stays private, since the risk of false positives is always there. Regardless of what the solution is, the user will have to give up fully owning there device, since this chat control service can always decide to take control of your device to upload your communication somewhere.

People generally agree that you should have privacy from your neighbors, yes. Not having that would have real consequences for people. Like it could affect what people think of you etc.

But often the discussion is about if the government should be able to snoop on your web traffic or if large corporations should be allowed to gather data about you so they can customize advertising.

It is a logically consistent position to be okay with Google accessing your phone’s data but not wanting your neighbor to have such access. No one is advocating the latter, so I think we need to sharpen our arguments. Otherwise we’re just making a strawman argument.

Cool, didn’t know where they were stored exactly. Thanks for investigating :)

Will this copy saved passwords as well? They might not want saved personal passwords to go on the work computer.

I haven’t found something that has good support for swiping words. Anysoft Keyboard gets too many words wrong.

If I thought Google was actually collecting what I type, I would put up with typing manually on another keyboard. But that kind of data collection without consent is illegal in the EU. I’d put the risk of Google breaking the law here at less than 10%, which is tolerable.

Seems I was confused about it being Gboard. It’s one of those suggestion lines that pop up over the keyboard, but apparently it’s a separate service.

Thank you! This must be it.

I don’t have message content in my notifications, so I don’t think it can read any data from there. Maybe Signal just supplies it to this service directly?

How does ability to detect more faces relate to mental health? It doesn’t seem like something negative.

Looks like it doesn’t have any way to train legs so you should probably get something extra for that. Legs are hard to train with just bodyweight because the muscles are too strong and don’t get exhausted from just the weight of your body.

Can you pull the handles in the middle towards you in a rowing motion, or is it just for pushing? If not, you need some way to train your back also. Maybe back extension would work as a bodyweight exercise.