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Sounds like a bad joke but the EU governing council wants to once again legislate #chatcontrol for it's 350 million citizens. According to @echo_pbreyer (EU parlamentarian) the legislation wants to force messengers to prevent users from sending images or videos unless they agree them to be scanned, AI-analyzed and potentially reported to police. They apparently want to bring it up for a council vote in June and then negotiate it into a legally binding procedure in the EU patrick-breyer.de/en/let-yours…
#chatcontrol @Patrick Breyer
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Maciej Barć
Maciej Barć
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EU:

introduces the Green Deal (pol. "Zielony Ład")


Also EU:

lets throw all resources we have to use expensive AI in order to scan your private chat


I will also add: because this is governmental thing you can bet this will be introduced in the worst way imaginable. So said scanners will not only be expensive in terms of energy but also probably full of false positives.

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treefit
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@xgqt and how easy will it be to add pictures of some political posters, that you don't like, to the fingerprint databases.
Once you have the infra structure, the next tyrant will definitely make use of it.

Maybe the tyrants could also hack it when it is implemented insecurely. The potential for abuse is so vast, it's hard to grasp.

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DelegateVoid
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This is insane. But more often than not laws are made by people who don't understand how shit really works
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Delta Chat
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@delegatevoid It is easy to bring lots of technical arguments why #chatcontrol is a bad idea. But even if it were technically possible, it would be a catastrophic idea. No government should have an automated surveillance capability built into all private communications -- and images and videos are very much a core part of private communications. Pushing for such automated surveillance of private communications arguably surpasses Iran, Russia and other countries's control efforts.
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