Sounds like a bad joke 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 two days and get it through parliament in June. German link https://www.patrick-breyer.de/lass-dich-ueberwachen-eu-rat-will-sich-auf-chatkontrolle-mit-zustimmung-der-nutzer-einigen/
🇬🇧 I am asking the Commission from what stage will #ChatControl apply to videogames? Think beta testing, small indie games, etc. : they will be more impacted by the mandatory algorithmic-monitoring of in-game chats than large studios.
🇬🇧 Welcome to Konstantin Macher as our new #ChatControl campaigner!
Here you can see him in front of the German federal parliament at a protest he organised.
📷 CC-BY 4.0, Stefanie Loos
🇬🇧 🇪🇺 Today's #EuropeDay is a symbol of unity, peace and freedom in Europe. But these values are only worth as much as we are prepared to fight for them. And that's what we #Pirates have been doing for you in the EU Parliament for almost 10 years! #ChatControl#EHDS#BMS
🇬🇧 The Council LEWP meets tomorrow; it'll discuss the #ChatControl methodology proposed by Belgium, which is criticised by hundreds of academics (https://nce.mpi-sp.org/index.php/s/eqjiKaAw9yYQF87)
The risk methodology merely serves to legitimate mass scanning; any privacy-preserving feature is seen as a risk
A carta é arrasadora: as recentes mudanças no #ChatControl continuam a atacar a criptografia extremo-a-extremo nas comunicações.
Os cientistas começam por fazer notar que o impacto da proposta actual vai contra a decisão do Tribunal Europeu dos Direitos Humanos de 13 de Fevereiro de 2024, alertando que a proposta cria uma capacidade de vigilância e controlo das pessoas sem precedentes.
Afirmam que as medidas de deteção direcionadas não reduzem o risco de vigilância massiva: a tecnologia falha demasiado e o nº de pessoas inocentes (que enviam fotos ao médico, família, etc.) atingidas não será reduzido.
Só para uma plataforma, os cientistas estimam 1.4 milhões de falsos positivos, sublinhando que a nova proposta não resolve o problema da anterior.
Para executar estas medidas, é necessário monitorizar os dispositivos das pessoas. E uma vez implementado, é impossível garantir ou controlar o que está a ser monitorizado nos equipamentos de cada pessoa ou os critérios que acionam um alerta.
A new open letter signed by more than 270 scientists from 33 countries warning for the risks of the modified CSAM (child sexual abuse) regulation proposed by the Belgian presidency. #chatcontrol http://csa-scientist-open-letter.org
I've co-signed and can answer media inquiries for Ireland
🇬🇧 After 5 intensive and successful years in the EU Parliament, my fellow #Pirates@PiratKolaja, @MarketkaG and @vonpecka and I have completed the last Strasbourg session. Now it's time to keep our fingers crossed for @AnjaHirschel to continue my work. #Chatcontrol#EHDS
Je kind is ziek. De dokter vraagt een foto op te sturen van de aandoening. Prompt word je als ouder aangemerkt als crimineel. De New York Times tekende het huiveringwekkende relaas op van een vader die ten onrechte door Google werd aangegeven als kindermisbruiker. De EU wil scannen van verdacht content op ieders telefoon verplicht stellen. Maar het systeem maakt fouten en de gevolgen zijn ernstig. https://piratenpartij.nl/chatcontrole-mij-niet-gezien/
Chatcontrole? Mij niet gezien! #Chatcontrol
🇬🇧 To enable #ChatControl mass surveillance, 32 European police chiefs call for halting end-to-end encryption #E2EE. This is an attack on our security and digital privacy in violation of fundamental rights!
🇬🇧 New #leak on #ChatControl: Privacy-friendly and #E2EE encrypted messaging services are to be penalised with chat control bulk scanning orders. They want to turn the safest services into the most monitored ones!
European Parliament yesterday supported extending the indiscriminate #Chatcontrol 1.0 searching of ALL private messages sent via US big tech platforms.