Today is the day Mr. Hummelgaard wanted to push through a vote on Chat Control in the EU Council. But he failed! 🎉
However, Chat Control will be back, so let's look at what this law means for everyone, not just here in Europe:
#ChatControl is nothing but a Trojan Horse for citizens and businesses in Europe. Why?
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Tuta
in reply to Tuta • • •Once built, such a system isn't just able to scan for harmful content, it could very well be used or abused to look for anything interesting:
🔓 Your credit card details
🔓 Your sexual orientation
🔓 Your businesses' customer lists
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Tuta
in reply to Tuta • • •In Europe everyone is talking about #DigitalSovereignty - which is great! But we can't have that and undermine our sovereignty by giving law enforcement the key to all encrypted communication. To us at Tuta it's clear:
"There are no backdoors for the good guys only".
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Tuta
in reply to Tuta • • •AI technology designed to detect illegal material cannot distinguish between "good" and "bad" speech. It opens the door for governments, now or in the future, to monitor all messages, photos, and videos. Once the infrastructure for scanning is in place, it can and will be used for other means as well.
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Tuta
in reply to Tuta • • •Ask yourself this: Would you install a camera in your bathroom so the government can "make sure nothing bad happens"? Interestingly, EU governments themselves don't want the AI to scrape their data.
Check whose data the AI will be able to scan:
❌ Government
❌ Military
✅ YOU
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Tuta
in reply to Tuta • • •If we allow this Trojan Horse through the gates, we’ll lose the very principle of private communication.
We must say no to Chat Control! Not because we don’t care about safety, but because mass surveillance destroys safety for everyone.
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Tuta
in reply to Tuta • • •Read our Open Letter: 👉 tuta.com/blog/open-letter-agai…
And learn why #ChatControl must be stopped:
🚨 Undermines Europe's digital sovereignty
🚨 Weakens everybody's security
🚨 Destroys trust in the European tech industry
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Europe's future is at stake: Open letter against Chat Control | Tuta
Tutakaika1975
in reply to Tuta • • •what about the email services ?
Could it be also be scan one day if this step is passed?
HardenYourPrivacy
in reply to Tuta • • •For your information, the United Nations is opposed to Chat Control!
Source : linkedin.com/posts/ohchr_chatc…
#ChatControl
#chatcontrol #encryption | United Nations Human Rights
www.linkedin.comSofia Anatasha
in reply to Tuta • • •Aleksei 🎃
in reply to Tuta • • •hdv1
in reply to Tuta • • •Murray 🇪🇺
in reply to Tuta • • •There's also the system itself. Cast your minds back to the Post Office fiasco in the UK, where innocent people were jailed for fraud because the system had flaws.
Svante
in reply to Tuta • • •When you see »could« here, think »will«.
It will be abused, massively. More than it could ever be used for its officially stated goal.
w00p
in reply to Tuta • • •It is impossible to differentiate between legitimate nudes or abusive ones.
As well as it is impossible to differentiate grooming vs flirting simply by the chat content.
#chatcontrol is a huge scam!!
Only practical use-case is mass surveillance and information control.
Kierkegaanks regretfully
in reply to Tuta • • •Miron
in reply to Tuta • • •hey Tuta. I appreciate the work you’re doing fighting for our privacy on social media.
In return I’ll fight to adopt your email services within our company.
Let’s see where this takes us 😆
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Tuta
in reply to Miron • • •TrimTab 🇺🇦
in reply to Tuta • • •zombiewarrior
in reply to Tuta • • •"no we need to surveil everyone but him"
Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️⚧️♾️🇺🇦
in reply to Tuta • • •Pablo Majster
in reply to Tuta • • •And you know what's worst about all this, after delving even deeper into the subject? That it would de facto be the end of *all* privacy 🚫🔐 Because, in reality, this law assumes the scanning of everything sent from our device, not just messages, as is usually said. That's the worst part. That this law normally seems bad because it will scan our messages. But the truth is, this law is the devil because it will scan everything
#ChatControl #FightChatControl #StopChatControl
Alexander Goeres 𒀯
in reply to Tuta • • •@Tuta you have to be precise with this: it did not fail! to avoid failure the vote was postponed because somehow surprisingly germany showed some resistance. i don't expect it to stay that way.
the eu commission's president Ursula von der Leyen, a member of the cdu, the actual ruling party in germany, was notorious for using the pretext of fighting child abuse to install internet censorship in germany (dns blocking list aso). thus her nickname in germany: Zensursula, from Zensur (censorship) and Ursula ...
a postponed vote can be added quite quickly back on the agenda and fighting the evil internet is a popular topic in party circles of the conservatives. also, don't count on the german chancellor Merz to keep promises he made ...
Tuta
in reply to Alexander Goeres 𒀯 • • •dotoscat
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