"For a future with privacy, not mass surveillance, Germany
must stand firmly against client-side scanning in the Chat
Control proposal
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled
opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal.
In a very real way it could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. Germany has long been a champion for privacy;
drawing on its own history of the terrible harm that can be facilitated by mass surveillance and standing firm to safeguard this
right for all of Europe. To capitulate now, at a time of great geopolitical uncertainty where the cybersecurity of our core
infrastructures matters more than ever, would be an incomprehensible strategic blunder, and a fundamental betrayal of Europe’s
commitment to learn from history.
Under the guise of protecting children, the latest Chat Control proposals would require mass scanning of every message, photo,
and video on a person’s device, assessing these via a government-mandated database or AI model to determine whether they
are permissible content or not."
https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/germany-chat-control.pdf
Does somebody know how they want to implemented it? Do they want to force app companies to scan for them in their apps, or do they want Google to implement message scanning on the OS level?
Scary times!