The plan of EU's chat control is coming
The European Union has been fighting for access to your private messages for years. Brussels desperately wants the ability to read all digital communications of EU citizens—including text messages, emails, private messages on social networks such as X, TikTok, or Instagram, and even messages sent via end-to-end encrypted services such as Telegram and WhatsApp. None of your private conversations would be private anymore.
This proposal was submitted in 2022 as part of the Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (CSAR). The aim of this measure, called Chat Control, was to search for illegal content – specifically child pornography – and report it to the authorities. In theory, artificial intelligence technology would be used to scan the content of each message before it was encrypted, i.e., before it was encoded into unreadable code that only the recipient could decrypt. This aspect of the legislation proved too controversial for many member states and was rejected by the European Parliament.
The devastating impact this would have on privacy cannot be overstated. The EU has tried to reassure citizens that messages will continue to be encrypted – but only after they have been scanned first. However, this essentially renders encryption useless. It is the same as if the post office opened and read your letters before sending them. Even the European Council's legal service considers this a disaster, noting that "client-side scanning is a violation of human rights and does not depend on the type of technology."
Source: konzervativninoviny.cz
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