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EU Possibly Emerging As One Of The Greatest Threats To Privacy (www.webpronews.com)

submitted 1 day ago by schizoidman@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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As part of its efforts, the bloc has repeatedly introduced its Chat Control legislation, aimed at weakening the encryption that protects messaging services and force providers to provide a client-side backdoor for law enforcement.

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[–] gomp@lemmy.ml 62 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The title is missing a second part: "after China, the US, Russia, the UK, etc.".

I get that privacy is potentially in danger if chatcontrol passes (ie. it's not right now) and that to raise awareness is worthwhile, but misrepresenting one of the best places privacy-wise as "one of the greatest threats" is just dishonest.

[–] coach_cheese@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The EU is interesting because there is the GDPR that has good data privacy protection but then they keep bringing up chat control which completely undermines privacy

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 1 day ago

"They" being some proponents starting with Ylva Johansson, but it's also true that they have never had a majority to actually make chat control happen. They keep trying, but "they" are not the EU as a whole.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Because they support limited privacy from corporations, but zero privacy from government. The neoliberals don’t consider that a double standard.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

No, those countries are not enshrining in law the requirement for backdoors to serve your own government, for which you’ll be required to comply.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

None of those countries are trying to dismantle encryption entirely so no, I disagree.

[–] yet_another_commie@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I genuinely sus that all "fedditors" are Washingtobots

Feddit.org instance even has "fed" and "reddit" in it, what an unholy mix

[–] Delamcode@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Well, the UK sure is trying, and the US was also thinking about it (never got to law-making at least)