The attack on encryption in Europe is very real. We obtained a leaked document from the EU showing Spanish officials want to ban end-to-end encryption.
Beyond this, the document shows the views of 20 countries on encryption, and how it relates to a controversial proposed law that would allow companies to scan people's chats to hunt for child sexual abuse material.
The majority said they are in favour of some form of scanning of encrypted messages.
The document also reveals that a lot of countries don't appear to know how end-to-end encryption works, with many proposals being technically infeasible.
@pepicrft@mattburgess yes, I was surprised to see Spain being so vocal about this. More and more countries joining in on this :-(
I can’t figure out whether these politicians just need to be educated, or whether they actually know exactly what they’re doing. But it’s bad either way.
@stefanf28@mattburgess I think Spain is far behind in understanding tech and corporations like OpenAI and Amazon know about it. They are vendor-locking them into their offering to gather the government and country’s data.
So these news are not really suspending after what I’ve seen.
@pepicrft@mattburgess I don’t know how exactly we stop these kinds of big tech sellouts. I guess us choosing to be here and learning and sharing news about it is a start.
But with so many crises competing for attention it’s tough to get friends and family and colleagues to take notice of what’s happening. And these companies know that too.
@pepicrft@mattburgess well done for doing that. The speed at which people are willing to hand over some deeply personal insights to an unaccountable, still relatively unknown corporate entity is scary. I mean, we’ve seen this kind of behaviour before of course - but this thing is next level.
The pushback I normally get is classic: “but I have nothing to hide!”
@stefanf28@mattburgess or they don’t know all the insights that they can get by aggregating data and what they can do with them. We need more education around this subject.
Sadly, the government doesn’t seem interested in changing that — the less citizens know, the better
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