🇬🇧Dirty tricks around tomorrow's #ChatControl showdown vote? Several critical governments are discussing whether to oppose or to abstain. If the Belgian presidency tomorrow only ask which governments are opposed, silence could be counted as approving! patrick-breyer.de/en/council-t…
The Belgian EU Council presidency seems set to have bulk Chat Control searches of our private communications greenlighted by EU governments on Wednesday 19 June.
🇬🇧 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!
The Belgian EU Council presidency seems set to have bulk Chat Control searches of our private communications greenlighted by EU governments on Wednesday 19 June.
🇬🇧Things are moving: Vote on #ChatControl postponed to Thursday! Keep going, contact your government and organise more protests. Now is the time to act! patrick-breyer.de/en/council-t…
The Belgian EU Council presidency seems set to have bulk Chat Control searches of our private communications greenlighted by EU governments on Wednesday 19 June.
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.
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.
Back to more interesting matters than these authoritarian #chatcontrol dreams (don't you bet many "AI" companies are lining up to sell automated policing?) ...
🇬🇧🚨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
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.
In the latest in a string of alarming developments, the Belgian government has proposed a new supposed 'solution' to the Chat Control deadlock in the Council. Read why this new proposal undermines people's security across the European Union.
🇬🇧🚨Beware: The #ChatControl proposal which has been stalling could be adopted by EU governments after all. France is considerung to give up its resistance. The "compromise": Either you agree to have your chats scanned or you can no longer share&receive pictures/videos and links! Read all about it: t.co/pZly3vp8iD
Die Gamer-Initiative „Stop Killing Games“ wehrt sich gegen das vorsätzliche Zerstören von Computerspielen. Anlass ist das kurzfristige und möglicherweise illegale Abschalten der Server für das Spiel „The Crew“ durch Publisher …\n
The highly controversial indiscriminate child sexual abuse regulation (so-called chat control) could still be endorsed by EU governments after all, as France could give up its previous veto.
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Die belgische Ratspräsidentschaft hat ihren neuen Kompromissvorschlag zur Chatkontrolle präsentiert. Wir veröffentlichen die 205 Seiten: https://netzpolitik.
@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.
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…
🚨New #leak on #ChatControl: EU interior ministers want to exempt themselves, police staff etc. from error-prone scanning, while searching our messages indiscriminately - outrageous! Read on: patrick-breyer.de/en/leak-eu-i… #Pirates
According to the latest draft text of the controversial EU Child Sexual Abuse Regulation proposal leaked by the French news organization Contexte, which the EU member states discussed, the EU interior ministers want to exempt professional accounts of…
Am 28. Januar findet alljährlich der Data Privacy Day statt. Wir nehmen diesen Aktionstag (bzw. die Woche, in die er fällt) jeweils zum Anlass, um einmal mehr auf die Wichtigkeit von Datenschutz hinzuweisen, und jedes Jahr ist zu betonen, dass Datens…
🇬🇧 #Chatcontrol: European providers of secure communication services such as Proton and Threema appeal to the EU interior ministers to follow the EU Parliament and reject #chatcontrol. Listen to us citizens, listen to the economy, @EU2024BE! tuta.com/blog/open-letter-encr…
Brusel, 14. listopadu 2023 – Kompromisní podobu nových pravidel pro ochranu dětí před sexuálním zneužíváním dnes stvrdil klíčový výbor Evropského parlamentu pro občanské svobody, spravedlnost a vnitřní věci (LIBE).
📢 The EU Parliament will not be moving forward with chat control! The indiscriminate mass surveillance measures have been removed and secure end-to-end encryption will not be compromised! 🥳
Chat control would be one of the worst surveillance laws and must be stopped: After huge protest from experts to citizens EU Parliament agrees to do so now.
🇬🇧 Amazing news from the European Parliament: 💥 Parliament negotiators have agreed to aim for stoppig #chatcontrol and guaranteeing secure encryption! Let’s not relent now...
This week, the European Parliament's negotiators reached a broad majority agreement on a common position concerning the controversial EU chat control bill.
Velký úspěch pro @Pirati! Plošné šmírování soukromých zpráv nás všech, neboli #ChatControl, jsme dostali PRYČ z pozice Evropského parlamentu k legislativě pro ochranu dětí.
Teď je třeba o zachování našeho soukromí přesvědčit ještě národní vlády.
Brusel, 26. října 2023 - Vyjednavači v Evropském parlamentu se shodli na kompromisu nových pravidel pro ochranu dětí před sexuálním zneužíváním online.
Analýza: Pod praporem boje s dětskou pornografií prosazuje Evropská komise nařízení, kterým by se značně omezilo soukromí na internetu. Nyní k tomu používá i metody, které jiným sama zakazuje.
With the EP\'s mandate coming to an end in 2024, many crucial digital policy files are currently in their finishing stages. Many of them have an impact on our democracies. …\n
#YlvaJohansson's department specifically targeted people in member states that had been critical of her proposal but excluded people who are likely to value #privacy.
The European Commission wants to turn digital communication apps, such as WhatsApp, iMessage, Instagram, TikTok and X, into mass surveillance tools so that digital communications of all EU citizens, including their live conversations, photos and vide…
Today, two open letters from academics on the scientific arguments against the current #CSS (client side scanning) initiatives have been released:
* The first (in English, internationally coordinated) one is online at tinyurl.com/CSAScientistsLette… and still open for additional signatures.
* The second (in German, by #Austrian academics) one is online at ins.jku.at/chatcontrol/ and explicitly includes law experts in addition to the arguments from a security, privacy, and AI perspective.
This debate is expected to gain new steam with #Spain taking over the EU council presidency, given recently leaked statements like "Ideally, in our view, it would be desirable to legislatively prevent EU-based service providers from implementing end-to-end encryption" (wired.co.uk/article/europe-bre…).
Please boost on any channels you deem adequate. The discussion is still open, and we have little time to bring it to a more rational level.
In response to an EU proposal to scan private messages for illegal material, the country's officials said it is “imperative that we have access to the data.”
#Chatcontrol must be stopped! The draft law is facing huge opposition. We applaud 👏 300 scientists for urging EU policymakers so stop chat control. Let's fight for our right to #privacy! 💪🔒
End-to-End encryption is one of the good things we have with the current internet and app ecosystems. But it is under constant threat -- be it from EU's #chatcontrol, UK's "online safety bill" or the current renewed "EARN IT" effort in the US: eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/earn… .... anyone of these efforts succeeding would be a dangerous dam break. Let's collectively make sure all these governmental anti-privacy efforts fail!
In a free society, people should not have their private correspondence constantly examined. U.S. lawmakers, we would hope, understand that individuals have the right to a private conversation without the government looking over their shoulder.
