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Dear community, many people inside and outside the EU (UK and other countries) have serious concerns regarding the potential new laws regarding "chat control" and "client side scanning"...Countless of scientists and spececialist opposed since beginning of the discussions in the EU since 2 years...There are so many articles and sources, that i feel unable to post all of them here now...But i want to post the latest open letter of hundreds of scientists from over 30 countries....This is one of the possible links over the german IT magazine Heise:

https://www.heise.de/downloads/18/4/2/6/6/3/9/0/CSA_Academia_Open_Letter.pdf

I do not want to start a discussion about it..only inform. But this is really an important topic and we all should be at least be aware of it. THis is just informative.

Cheers

    Ah, some key details are in that PDF that haven't been discussed in prior threads;

    1) For services that do NOT involve end-to-end encryption, scanning is to be performed at SERVER SIDE -- no client side scanning required.
    2) For services that DO involve end-to-end encryption, scanning is to be implemented within the APPLICATION on the client side -- no OS level backdoors required.

    How is this relevant for people who use FOSS? Sure Whatsapp or some other big tech company is probably going to follow these laws, but they cannot stop open source developers from implementing E2EE.

    • N1b replied to this.

      Hathaway_Noa my problem with the pure idea is that this wants to turn the general audience away from privacy friendly apps, make them look shady and evil. Messengers like Signal are very important and strike a good balance between security, privacy and convenience, so I was able to get my family and friends to use it. Imagine you being the only person in your peer groups using Signal and being scolded for it and called child abuser. This has the potential to throw society back decades and get rid of human privacy rights, because the non tech savvy people will mostly believe what's on the news channels...

      gustl thanks for spreading the information. Let's hope politicians listen to reason.

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