We should not wait for it and just allow it happen. We still have instruments to use. We need to act now.
Denmark wants to ban #Telegram, #Signal and other encrypted chats:
https://cybernews.com/privacy/denmark-ban-telegram-signal-whatsapp/
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You are right. Currently a regulation is in place allowing providers to scan communications voluntarily (so-called “Chat Control 1.0”). So far only some unencrypted US communications services such as GMail, Facebook/Instagram Messenger, Skype, Snapchat, iCloud email and X-Box apply chat control “voluntarily”.
Then it is easy to target developers of those options. Variety gives more time to develop privacy tools and protection for end-users and developers.
Give them to listen my podcast about weaponization of banking data and explain that with messages data/communication will be even worse. Send messages to your politicians and ministers of justice and interior.
It depends where do you live and how you exercise your rights. In western countries people still have a lot of instruments to get implemented their recommendations. I was supported by western governments many times while I was under attacks of several dictators. So use your rights.
For the moment the most important to ask all your friends act: send requests to their government to reject the proposal altogether.
Lord is allowed for this draft to be at the last stage. So, if humans don’t stop it, it will be a precedent both for the EU and the US. It is very dangerous regulation for #freedomtech and its developers, users and investors.
If there is no resistance - what will stop them?
URGENT: PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY COMMUNICATION RIGHT NOW!
on 4th Sept 2024 #ChatControl regulation representatives of EU goverments will resume work based on a secret document according to Patrick #Breyer, former Member of the European Parliament.
Help to mobilize everybody to defend our #privacy of communication and its developers, investors!
If no preventive actions from your side now, this regulation will be endorsed on 12/13 December 2024.
According to the draft regulation dated 28 May (Council document 9093/24), ChatControl deploys to do, for instance:
🔻 “upload moderation”, users of apps and services with chat functions are to be asked whether they accept the indiscriminate and error-prone scanning and possibly reporting of their privately shared images, photos and videos.
🔻Scan by “artificial intelligence” technology previously unknown images and videos;
🔻If a user refuses the scanning, they would be blocked from sending or receiving images, photos, videos and links (Article 10).
🔻End-to-end encrypted services such as Whatsapp or Signal would have to implement the automated searches “prior to transmission” of a message (so-called client-side scanning, Article 10a).
During the last discussion on 24 May, the Council Legal Service made it clear that indiscriminate chat control scanning of non-suspects is still envisioned and remains a violation of fundamental rights.
Nevertheless, most EU governments are determined to go ahead. https://netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2024/05/2024-05-28_Council_Presidency_LEWP_CSAR_Compromise-texts_9093.pdf
🌎 Tell your goverment and parliamentarians, that the proposal should be rejected altogether!
🔴Is your government in favour?
→ Ask for an explanation and for your government to revert its course.
🟡Is your government abstaining?
→ Ask why and demand that they take a strong stance against chat control.
🟢Is your government opposing?
→ Great, but take a closer look at the reasoning: Some governments like #Germany e.g. only object to the scanning of encrypted communications, but are fine with the indiscriminate scanning of other private and public communication, with the end of anonymous communication by requiring age verification, or with introducing a minimum age for “risky” communication apps. Also critical governments need to do more, exert their influence in the Council of the EU and agree on a joint list of necessary fundamental changes to the proposal. Absent such revision they should ask the European Commission to withdraw the chat control proposal as it stands.
🔴 In favour of ChatControl: France, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden.
🟡Abstained: Estonia, Netherlands, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Austria
🟢 Opposed the proposal: Germany, Poland
When reaching out to your government, the ministries of the interior (in the lead) of justice and of digitisation/telecommunications/economy are your best bet. You can additionally contact the permanent representation of your country with the EU: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/who-is-who/organization/-/organization/COREPER/
It is fine to be public. Im just saying about feature of visibility who liked the post for the world. 🌎
Yes. I guess developers don’t know what consequences are following for visible likes. So if we have option to hide our likes by default, that would be very useful.
Also, what about responses to the deleted post. Will they stay or disappear too?
Very helpful. Thanks! What about visibility of “likes”? In majority of the authoritarian countries people persecuted for liking posts. So if that information is visible only to the author, but not to everyone - that makes more secure experience for people.
Every time when I was said “bitcoin doesn’t care” I was telling that we need to protect and PREVENT attacks against developers, investors, end-users and entire ecosystem of Bitcoin, including miners.
Case of #Durov is a bright example what we can expect if technology is labeled with negative language by regulators in western countries, especially EU.
If it isn’t protected now, privacy will be classified as a crime, just like in the case of Durov by French law enforcement agencies:
🔻providing cryptology services aiming to ensure confidentiality without certified declaration;
🔻“providing cryptology services aiming to ensure authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration”. 
Help us to establish FreedomTech Embassy in the EU. We can make changes together.
Do you have a video recording of the presentation?
