🇩🇪270 Wissenschaftler aus 33 Ländern zerreißen den neuesten Vorstoß des EU-Rats zur #Chatkontrolle in der Luft und warnen vor "katastrophalen Konsequenzen":
▶️untergräbt Kommunikations- und Systemsicherheit
▶️nie gekannte Überwachungs- und Kontrollmöglichkeiten
▶️Millionen Falschtreffer zu erwarten
▶️#Chatkontrolle ist Techno-Solutionismus und wird Kindesmissbrauch kaum eindämmen
🇬🇧270 scientists from 33 countries warn the latest EU Council #chatcontrol proposals would have "catastrophic consequences":
▶️completely undermines communications and systems security
▶️unprecedented capabilities for surveillance and control of Internet users
▶️millions of false alarms expected
▶️techno-solutionist proposal with little potential
for impact on abuse perpetrated against children
@echo_pbreyer Consequences will actually be much worse - they will hugely increase the abuse of children if passed, not just have little impact.
The main risk for children is their discoverability on social media and the lack of parental controls - it allows sexual predators to approach children on social media, and reducing privacy will make it much more effective.
@echo_pbreyer instead of dramatically increasing the risks for children by reducing their and their family privacy, the legislators should consider raising the age where parents have the right to access children information to at least 16 years, as technology platforms can't identify sexual predators masquerading as children.
By the time the abuse materials distributed it's already too late - so by reducing the privacy legislators are trying to hide the symptoms rather than solve the problem.
@echo_pbreyer in the stand-off "protect children" vs "protect privacy" we will lose both. The reality is that the only way to protect children is by increasing their and their family privacy.
That is of course if legislators really want to protect children, and are not simply using it as a pretext for large scale surveillance against their citizens.
Let's not be fooled by "protect the children" narrative - if Chat Control surveillance succeeds, children will be a collateral damage.
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