That's not what it says there. The ruling is against mass surveillance through secretly installed software. It the companies are forced to install it on their messenger apps, and let the public know, that's a different story. Also, if the company providing the service is forced to run the analysis and only inform of possible criminal cases, that falls outside the rulling (as per the article, I haven't actually read the rulling itself)
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Yes, only covers secretly installed software, but it sets an important precedent and mentions that the government reading private communications breaks the Fernmeldegeheimnis and can therefore only be justified for serious crimes, like murder. Not stuff like "said something mean on the Internet".
"Der Senat stellt in seinen Beschlüssen fest: Die in zulässiger Weise angegriffenen Regelungen des PolG NRW sind vollständig mit dem Grundgesetz vereinbar; die angegriffenen Regelungen der Strafprozessordnung sind teilweise verfassungswidrig. So ist die Quellen-Telekommunikationsüberwachung zur Aufklärung solcher Straftaten, die lediglich eine Höchstfreiheitsstrafe von drei Jahren oder weniger vorsehen, nicht verhältnismäßig im engeren Sinne und wurde vom Senat insoweit für nichtig erklärt. Die Ermächtigung zur Online-Durchsuchung genügt, soweit sie (auch) zu Eingriffen in das durch Art. 10 Abs. 1 Grundgesetz (GG) geschützte Fernmeldegeheimnis ermächtigt, nicht dem Zitiergebot und ist daher mit dem Grundgesetz unvereinbar. Diese Vorschrift gilt bis zu einer Neuregelung jedoch fort."
Part of my point remains, the government isn't interested on reading your stuff, nor it has the means to run such operation.
The idea behind Chat Control 2.0 is that the Big Tech companies do that job for them and tell them when something "bad" is shared. Then it doesn't matter if the sentence is <3y, because it isn't them who's reading the private communication.
I don't think German law works that way. Users would have to agree to the change.
i'm pretty sure there would be an easy case for a federal court class action against companies doing any such thing.
there is a big issue with this in general now, also, with the hyperscaling AI cloud providers with their giant concentrated GPU laden data centers. people are NOT gonna be happy about having the NSA next door in langley to the data center "trust us bro, we won't let the NSA tap our traffic lol"
the normies are starting to wake up to the flagrant violations that have been normalized in secret and only publicly talked about by geeks, since the late 80s lol.
Yeah, I actually think some of this is gonna get rolled back.
That's the neat part, it doesn't have to. The regulation comes from the EU, you don't comply you can't provide the service in the common market.
It's with the users permission, of course. There are no providers offering the service without it though, because is an EU rule. So users can choose not to agree to the pre-encryption scan, but then they can't use any messaging app.
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