‘Let yourself be monitored’: EU governments to agree on Chat Control with user “consent” [updated] (www.patrick-breyer.de)
from nifty@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 29 May 2024 21:55
https://lemmy.world/post/15961559

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cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de on 29 May 2024 21:58 next collapse

This will probably just make peer to peer messaging apps more popular.

tal@lemmy.today on 30 May 2024 01:13 next collapse

Well, ones that aren’t based on a service operating in the EU, at any rate.

AbidanYre@lemmy.world on 30 May 2024 01:43 next collapse

Briar is pretty cool if you’re on Android.

Audalin@lemmy.world on 30 May 2024 08:29 next collapse

Very cool and impressive, but I’d rather be able to share arbitrary files.

And looks like you can only send images in DMs, but not in groups/forums.

Cocodapuf@lemmy.world on 30 May 2024 11:12 next collapse

What’s the advantage over signal?

AbidanYre@lemmy.world on 30 May 2024 12:10 collapse

If you have Internet it uses tor and there’s no main server to rely on.

If there’s no Internet it can use Bluetooth and Wi-Fi locally.

Cocodapuf@lemmy.world on 31 May 2024 20:44 collapse

Well I have to admit, those are some pretty snazzy tricks…

Using tor on a per app basis is pretty cool, I wonder what the security implications are for that? If some, but not all of your traffic is going through tor, I wonder if it’s easier to disentangle somehow… Probably it’s still secure though.

[deleted] on 30 May 2024 12:10 next collapse

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EngineerGaming@feddit.nl on 31 May 2024 08:13 collapse

I am just sad that the desktop version is not as full-featured. The website says no Tor bridges, which here means no Tor connectivity at all. And it is weird that the mailbox is primarily for phones, even though phones are not supposed to be working permanently on a charger - they do have a cli one at least so you’s probably be able to use something like a Raspberry instead, for now only buildable from source but hope it develops. But yea, very cool model! Although I would say for everyday less sensitive communication I would choose XMPP or Matrix instead.

steersman2484@sh.itjust.works on 30 May 2024 07:48 next collapse

I don’t think that most people will care

LordCrom@lemmy.world on 30 May 2024 13:20 collapse

99 percent of people won’t care, won’t understand, or just be part of the mindset of why be scared if we have nothing to hide.

Only us techs will care

robigan@lemmy.world on 31 May 2024 05:24 next collapse

Facts, if I could donate a star or gold I would

steersman2484@sh.itjust.works on 31 May 2024 10:55 collapse

I just don’t get it why mainsteam media almost never reports about this.

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 31 May 2024 11:05 collapse

Because it’s not been free press for a long time.

Remember when journalism was supposed to be outrageous? That’s not a mark of quality, that’s a rule. If it’s not outrageous, then it’s most likely not journalism.

It also never reports on wars outside of the agreed upon narrative. There’s time and narrative for everything. That doesn’t happen with free press. There may not be open censorship and coercion, but not seeing something is different from knowing it doesn’t exist.

Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz on 30 May 2024 09:34 next collapse

this could finally be a good “reason” to convice some people near me to get into meshtastic

helenslunch@feddit.nl on 22 Jun 2024 02:55 collapse

I just ordered a couple nodes a few days ago

EngineerGaming@feddit.nl on 31 May 2024 00:22 collapse

Less likely peer-to-peer, more likely selfhostable.

Opisek@lemmy.world on 31 May 2024 06:45 collapse

Just in time for me to finally have completed my Matrix setup a few days ago.

EngineerGaming@feddit.nl on 31 May 2024 07:49 collapse

I prefer XMPP, which is lighter, but I have a Matrix server too and get why you’d prefer it.

theherk@lemmy.world on 31 May 2024 11:13 collapse

Like a choice between cake and pizza.

Bezzelbob@lemmy.world on 29 May 2024 22:18 next collapse

They always hide behind the claim it’s for the children… but how many children have they actually saved from this?

Beaver@lemmy.ca on 29 May 2024 22:56 next collapse

They’re probably gonna put parents behind bars for a misunderstanding on their private lives

Bezzelbob@lemmy.world on 29 May 2024 22:58 collapse

This reminds me of that time google was scanning photos and reported a man to the police for being a pedophile, turns out it was a father sending a picture to his doctor

Beaver@lemmy.ca on 30 May 2024 00:50 collapse

That’s our tax dollars at work.

applepie@kbin.social on 29 May 2024 23:01 next collapse

Catholic clergy is sill grifting around this here country...

tal@lemmy.today on 30 May 2024 01:14 collapse

They always hide behind the claim it’s for the children

Sometimes it’s the terrorists.

pirat@lemmy.world on 31 May 2024 07:13 next collapse

But… Are they then going to catch or protect all the terrorist children?

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 31 May 2024 11:24 collapse

It’s so that children wouldn’t get recruited by terrorists.

Extrapolating a bit, children here may symbolize the civilian casualties of that world order becoming a bit more open, and terrorists those of us who don’t agree.

See, I can do this without alcohol.

archchan@lemmy.ml on 29 May 2024 22:19 next collapse

If consent mattered, governments and corporations all around the world wouldn’t be pushing to expand the global surveillance apparatus.

Is this just another Tuesday now? Fuck me.

AbidanYre@lemmy.world on 29 May 2024 22:51 next collapse

Self hosting for the win!

mox@lemmy.sdf.org on 30 May 2024 05:41 next collapse

users of apps with a communication function would have to agree via terms and conditions or pop-up messages that all images and videos sent to others will be scanned automatically and possibly reported to the EU and the police.

This is more like coercion than consent.

And let’s be clear: The goal of legislation like this is not to allow investigating child abusers, which can already be done legally. The goal is to impose mass surveillance on the population, circumventing due process.

dunz@feddit.nu on 30 May 2024 07:54 collapse

What if I don’t agree? No messages?

Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 May 2024 12:29 next collapse

Most likely.

lost_faith@lemmy.ca on 30 May 2024 12:37 collapse

On the next EULA click no or don’t agree and try using the service

dunz@feddit.nu on 30 May 2024 13:40 collapse

It works with cookie popups, except you need to deny them with every page load

tb_@lemmy.world on 31 May 2024 06:57 collapse

Those are a little different.

uebquauntbez@lemmy.world on 31 May 2024 09:47 next collapse

I’d vote for testing this mass chat control on politicians and CEOs of the companies that want this mass control. Let’s say for the next 10 years? Or 20? Pretty sure the results will be great. For people, for justice, for democracy.

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 31 May 2024 11:01 collapse

That won’t happen. What will happen is that functionality will be there, on paper requiring your consent, but you’ll never know how many times they’ve used it without consent.

They will read your correspondence, find threats to their power, make sure by soft nudges that those never materialize.

People saying that USSR was democratic will get to live in one, only without even the ideology of “freeing the humanity, building communism and colonizing space”.

barryamelton@lemmy.ml on 31 May 2024 11:10 next collapse

Even if you don’t opt in, 99% of the people you interact with would have opted in. So you will monitored as they please.

Treczoks@lemmy.world on 31 May 2024 17:38 collapse

As if any chat systems inteded for dubious purposes in the darknet would give a flying f-ck about this law.