Today, the European Parliament approved the ePrivacy Derogation, allowing providers of e-mail and messaging services to automatically search all personal messages of each citizen for presumed suspect content and report suspected cases to the police. The European Pirates Delegation in the Greens/EFA
Sr Estegosaurio
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Fuck.

@Anachron@lemmy.ml
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So this is totally boosting my “Convert everyone to XMPP” project …

TheOPtimal
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It’s also boosting my “Convert everyone to Matrix” project aswell

Sr Estegosaurio
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I think that is really important to teach people about that. Cool objective

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The page also links to a well-made video about Chatcontrol, schedule, countermeasures & useful additional info: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/

The encrypted-mail era is coming.

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I was unaware of this, what? How can something like this pass with 78% of people being against? A very important step was taken with the GDPR, but now we are going to back away in an utter U-turn? I’m very disappointed and concerned about this… What can we do to somehow prevent the second phase (or even revert this)?

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This seems to be the boiling frog technique :)

The the 78% against is of course a very leading question.

A proponent of the law would have probably asked: “do you think Whatsapp should be allowed to search their servers for child-porn and report it to the police if found?”, which would probably result in 78% approval.

But of course this story is a bit more complex with unintended or maybe intended but not openly stated consequences.

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Yeah I see your point, it makes sense.

poVoq
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For now not mandatory, but if the second part of this initiative passes then this will be quite a problem indeed.

We must prepare.

Start creating RSA/cvEd25519 keys for E-Mail and promoting Matrix/XMPP.

Sr Estegosaurio
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True. Btw than key what you mean is GPG? Or is another thing? I’m interested

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