Gregory's ServerIt appears the Dutch government has decided to greenlight the EU plan to make 'big tech' force-install software on all European phones that will automatically report any questionable photos in your private chat messages to the police. This is not actually about protecting the children. This is about removing the very possibility of private communications. We can tell because governments have exempted themselves from this legislation (!). Here's something I wrote earlier: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/end-to-end-encryption-european-internet-forum/
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@bert_hubert Government is going to pay quadruple or more the price of a regular phone for special gov certified mobile phones.  @fschaap @bert_hubert They should talk to the Lebanese before deciding to buy special government-only phones.  @bert_hubert so now starts/put in overdrive the time to build bigtechless phone software and building software which feeds the machine bogus data @mjrider @bert_hubert Who exactly is required to install such software? @bert_hubert is it forcing whatsapp, signal etc.? Or forcing apple, android etc. Makes a difference how deep it interacts with your phone. @erikvdzeeuw these are distinctions with very little difference for the vast majority of users. For now Apple could be in scope with iMessage, but most certainly whatsapp and signal. But who cares where the mandatory scanning and reporting happens? The issue is that it happens.  @bert_hubert i think your description is misleading, this is chat control, photo upload scanning, server side, not scan software installed on your phone. Otherwise, link please. @clusterfcku It actually doesn't matter where the scanning happens, as long as it is 1) mandatory and 2) kept secret from you. Think about how it could make any difference which transistors do the scanning. @bert_hubert not that things are generally so much better as-is, but goddamnit that's terrifying. Surely there wouldn't be any false positives or any other hijinks associated with this "BUT THINK OF THE CHILDREN" campaign. The company attempting to sell this bullshit to the Dutch government should be dissolved.  |
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Ofcourse it's not about the the children, its never about the children. It's about control.