Hungary keeps pushing for Chat Control. Here’s why they must be stopped:

👉 tuta.com/blog/opposition-again…

#chatcontrol #Fight4privacy #encryption #security

🇬🇧🚨Orban moving fast: Endorsement of #ChatControl on the agenda for Wednesday (ambassadors) and Thursday (EU interior ministers) parlament.gv.at/dokument/XXVII… +++ Politicians, before you destroy secure #encryption understand that China spied on the US on a large scale using backdoors set up for lawful interception wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s… +++ Finland to take a stance on Wednesday eduskunta.fi/FI/tiedotteet/Siv… +++

Information and how you can lobby your government: chatcontrol.eu

As much as we fight the EU Commission's push for #chatcontrol, we applaud the EU for protecting users' #privacy with the #GDPR.

It's about time the #EU Commission reflects on European values and increases data protection, not undermining it. ✊

Read here what Tuta does to achieve GDPR-compliance: 👉 tuta.com/blog/gdpr-compliant-e…

#DSGVO #RGPD

🇬🇧Leak on latest #ChatControl attempt (in German): netzpolitik.org/2024/interne-d… +++ Only AUT, DEU, EST, LUX, POL, SVN were critical – no blocking minority! +++ BEL, CZE, FIN, ITA, NLD, PRT, SWE undecided +++ EU legal experts confirm violation of our fundamental rights +++ Only 5 days to next discussion +++

Help pressure our governments into defending our #privacy of correspondence and secure #encryption now: patrick-breyer.de/en/take-acti…

🚨 From today, #EU governments could start endorsing the #ChatControl draft law.

🫵 We need you to object to this client side scanning of all your private messages.

✅ Here’s how you can help stop this #surveillance : patrick-breyer.de/en/take-acti…

🇬🇧🚨#ChatControl is back on the agenda: As soon as next Wednesday representatives of EU governments will resume work based on a secret document. consilium.europa.eu/en/documen…

This is what you can do now to help: patrick-breyer.de/en/take-acti…

Update:
Wednesday's meeting will be on collecting "guidance for further work" on #ChatControl - important!
parlament.gv.at/dokument/XXVII…

#Journalists and EU citizens - Want to know how you can help stop chat control?

First things first, stop calling it Upload Moderation and call it Chat Control! Many of you still call #ChatControl Upload Moderation but that doesn't do this #privacy invading law justice!

Want to learn more on Germany's role in stopping Chat Control? Check out Tuta's latest article here: tuta.com/blog/germany-stop-cha…

Do the right thing and say it how it is!

Il video dell'#XMPP Italian Happy Hour di Giugno é online; I temi:
- #Chatcontrol
- La fragilità dei progetti di sw libero, ancora (Il caso di Xerolinux)
- La liberazione di Julian #Assange (c'entra con XMPP? forse sì)

Lo trovate sul canale Peertube dell'Happy Hour:

video.xmpp-it.net/c/happyhour/…

Italian XMPP Happy Hour

Questo è il canale PeerTube dell'Italian XMPP Happy Hour, un evento a cadenza mensile dedicato al protocollo XMPP. XMPP è l'acronimo di "Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol" ed è costituito ...

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#ChatControl is on the agenda again: Hungary schedules debate in October and adoption in December.

We need to start preparing now. First step: Find allies!

data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/d…

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"for the first time, Commissioner Jourova publicly admitted at yesterday's EDPS summit that encryption would need to be broken for Chat Control to become effective."
— tuta.com/blog/interview-patric…

#ChatControl #EuropeanCommission #Surveillance #EU #Privacy #HumanRights #Encryption #Security

Europe and Australia will both not break encryption! We’ve interviewed Patrick Breyer – the guy who coined the term Chat Control.

Action taken by privacy activists and citizens stops the push for mass surveillance.

^Tutanota

🚨 PRIVACY WIN: Europe and Australia will both not break encryption! 🚀 🔒

We’ve interviewed @echo_pbreyer – the guy who coined the term #ChatControl – on why #privacy matters and how you can join our fight for privacy. ❤️ 👇

tuta.com/blog/interview-patric…

Europe and Australia will both not break encryption! We’ve interviewed Patrick Breyer – the guy who coined the term Chat Control.

Action taken by privacy activists and citizens stops the push for mass surveillance.

^Tutanota

Yesterday the #EU postponed the vote on #ChatControl - a huge win for #privacy 💪

Now we must convince #Australia to do the same.

If not, Australia could become the first #5Eyes to outlaw #encryption 🔒

Read our open letter
👉 tuta.com/blog/australian-onlin…

The conversation with @josh and @matthew about @matrix on @FLOSS_Weekly was fascinating and for once I would have enjoyed more than an hour. Matthew's frustration with trying to explain to legislators why #ChatControl and #OnlineSafetyBill are so misguided was especially striking - I do hope @EUCommission listen.

hackaday.com/2024/06/19/floss-…

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Matrix

FLOSS Weekly Episode 788: Matrix, It’s Git, For Communications

This week Jonathan Bennett and Simon Phipps chat with Matthew Hodgson and Josh Simmons about Matrix, the open source decentralized communications platform. How is Matrix a Git for Communications? A…

^Hackaday

📣 If the EU Council wants to exempt themselves from the #ChatControl client-side scanning, then they know what they are doing is wrong.

The vote is today.

Let them know we will not accept mass #surveillance! Together we can stop this dangerous law. 💪

patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-cont…

Chat control: Politicians, industry raise alarm over EU’s unprecedented messenger surveillance plans

Tomorrow (Thursday) EU governments are to vote on a bill (officially called “child sexual abuse regulation” but known as “chat control”) that would require automated searches in and disclosure of private chats, including end-to-end encrypted chats, t…

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The planned #chatcontrol makes the world less secure and more authoritarian, as it is directed against private and encrypted communication. Proponents are using disinformation, lies, and sleight of hand to push through the project. But chat control can still be stopped. A commentary.

netzpolitik.org/2024/client-si…

Client-Side-Scanning: Chat Control is Pure Surveillance State

The planned chat control makes the world less secure and more authoritarian, as it is directed against private and encrypted communication. Proponents are using disinformation, lies, and sleight of hand to push through the project.

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🇬🇧None other than Edward Snowden is now calling on us to stop #ChatControl! x.com/Snowden/status/180312759…

We have one day left until the vote.

Here's what you can do, especially if you are from Finland, Poland, Slovenia, Estonia, Greece, Portugal: patrick-breyer.de/en/council-t…

🇬🇧 It's up to all of us now. Write a mail to you government. Share the call to action. Call your government during the day. Together we are the resistance. Stop #ChatControl!

patrick-breyer.de/en/council-t…

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🚨 If you are living in the #EU contact your representatives and let them know that you oppose #ChatControl!!!

Mass #surveillance has no place in Europe!

We need to get loud. Call the number below to make your voice heard! 📢

First, review posts with the #ChatControl hashtag, as there are lots of well-informed people sharing reliable information.

@quincy linked to a directory of the relevant contact points for each EU member state and requested that people write a (polite) letter, so if you have voting rights in the EU that's a good place to start.

chaos.social/@quincy/112630111…

Quincy

2024-06-17 04:38:35

Urgent action needed to save secrecy of correspondence in the #EU:

Write to your country's delegates to stop plans for "client side scanning" of your devices, your photos, your family chat by some central entity.

It cannot hurt to send a (polite) letter before Wednesday 19, 2024 (day of the vote in the council).

op.europa.eu/en/web/who-is-who…

Permanent Representatives Committee - EU Whoiswho - Publications Office of the EU

Organisational charts of the EU institutions, bodies and agencies

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It was nearly two years ago that I wrote this article[1] about the EU #ChatControl surveillance directive on behalf of the @cryptpad team.

Very little has changed since then. Experts in technology, law, and policy all agree that the proposal undermines basic European rights, that it will be abused by authoritarian member states, and that the proposed tech solutions cannot possibly do the job the supporting legislators have claimed.

Nevertheless, they have persisted, claiming the support of "expert testimony" that overwhelmingly consists of unsupported claims by lobbyists associated with law enforcement and defense contractors who stand to benefit financially from its implementation.

A vote is expected to take place on June 19th. These have been scheduled and delayed multiple times already, but this it feels like they might get away with it. There is a lot going on in the EU at the moment, and people are both distracted and tired from fighting this for so long.

I'll try to make resistance easier by collecting some suggested actions below, with links.

[1]: blog.cryptpad.org/2022/05/19/a…

Against #chatcontrol

Something terrible is happening in the EU and we need help to stop it

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Back to more interesting matters than these authoritarian #chatcontrol dreams (don't you bet many "AI" companies are lining up to sell automated policing?) ...

Thanks to @dvzrv there now is a rather official #deltachat #arch package archlinux.org/packages/extra/a… 💜

🇬🇧🚨Alert: EU governments are to adopt #ChatControl #MassSurveillance in next Wednesday's Coreper II committee according to our information where abstentions may not be counted as a no!
How will your government vote?
chatcontrol.wtf

Update: Leak of minutes just published by Netzpolitik.org confirms the date of 19 June: netzpolitik.org/2024/anlasslos…

Anlasslose Massenüberwachung: Frankreich wackelt in der Ablehnung der Chatkontrolle

Schien eine Einigung des Europäischen Rates bei der Chatkontrolle zuletzt noch in weiter Ferne, zeichnet sich nun ab, dass Frankreich, einst klar gegen Chatkontrolle, zunehmend zum Wackelkandidat wird.

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Today the EU is voting on #chatcontrol - again!

We call on the 27 Justice and Home Affairs Ministers to defend encryption! 🔒 💪

Privacy is a human right and it's time politicians understand that.

👉 Read our open letter: tuta.com/blog/joint-statement-…

@echo_pbreyer