EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: “Our children lose out”

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0-breyer-our-children-lose-out/

“Trying to protect children with suspicionless mass surveillance is like frantically mopping the floor while the faucet is still running. Blanket chat control is just as unacceptable as indiscriminately opening everyone’s physical mail. For five years, this failed system has served as a smokescreen to delay real action, all while overwhelming the police with false alarms. We need more child protection, not less—but we need effective protection, not the illusion of security.”

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maam@feddit.uk · 23 pts · 47d

Alexander Hanff, survivor of child sexual abuse and privacy advocate, clarifies: “As a survivor I relied on confidential communications to tell my story and find justice for 28 schoolboys—myself included—resulting in the conviction of multiple offenders. We survivors need privacy, because without it we lose our voice. Chat Control was not created to protect children. It was about Big Tech companies like Meta or Google wanting access to our data for profiteering, and states attempting to expand mass surveillance. The EU Commission has wasted five years and millions of euros on algorithms that cannot protect children and were never meant to. This money should have been diverted to real policing, causal research, and support for survivors, millions of whom have never received any support at all.”

Eternal192@anarchist.nexus · 5 pts · 47d

The EU really wants to know who is calling them incompetent assholes.

Arghblarg@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 47d

This project looks interesting, as an alt platform attempting to add e2e security, with desktop and mobile: https://delta.chat/en/download

It has a neat way of adding apps within the chat platform.