Around 99% of all chat reports sent to police in Europe come from a single US corporation: Meta. US tech giants are acting as private auxiliary police forces—without any effective European oversight.
Thats very interesting. Assuming that whatsapp is actually e2ee that means instagram, facebook and threads account for 99% of all chat reports. That means all dms on there have been getting scanned. Sounds like people should leave those platforms.
isn´t this like the 3rd time already? lol
I talked to a few MEPs about chat control and other stuff - while the focus was on chat control the EU got this shit sneakily approved
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unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 56 pts · 176d
Thats very interesting. Assuming that whatsapp is actually e2ee that means instagram, facebook and threads account for 99% of all chat reports. That means all dms on there have been getting scanned. Sounds like people should leave those platforms.
lumen@feddit.nl · 31 pts · 176d
Not true for WhatsApp. It has a report function that forwards the last 5 messages in the conversation to Meta when used.
bless@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 176d
Could it be that the client (who has the keys to decrypt the message) just forwards those messages when the report is sent?
lumen@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 175d
Yes, that’s exactly how it works.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 176d
Didnt know that, i think i havent used it for over a decade.
Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 176d
Or maybe people are mislead by (and putting to much trust in) the term "end-to-end encryption"
Sure its encrypted in transit between you and the person you're exchanging messages with.
But that doesnt mean the Whatsapp app itself isnt scanning your chats on the phone.
RblScmNerfHerder@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 176d
Yep. Ugh, garbage companies!
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 40 pts · 176d
Thank fuck.
For now.
RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip · 31 pts · 176d
Scrollone@feddit.it · 9 pts · 176d
You don't say!
XTL@sopuli.xyz · 15 pts · 176d
It'll be back.
1984@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 175d
Comes back again and again.
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev · 5 pts · 176d
Once again. In a few months, they'll do the same and this will repeat until the law passes.
voxel@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 176d
You didn't even understand the context. It's about a law that already passed as temporarily and is about to run out.
Twongo@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 175d
isn´t this like the 3rd time already? lol I talked to a few MEPs about chat control and other stuff - while the focus was on chat control the EU got this shit sneakily approved
hhg@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 175d
Why is that bad? The linked article barely says anything
Twongo@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 175d
sorry, this should provide more context (german though)
dessalines@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 176d
To do this effectively, they'd have to ban facebook/whatsapp, which are the two most popular chat apps in Europe.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 176d
not really. there are several ways they could implement it
Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 175d
Is this AI generated?
It has an m-dash and uses the phrase "hard facts".