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Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.dev to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 11 hours ago

Chat Control approved: Certain EU countries will see your private messages. Is yours on the list?

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Chat Control approved: Certain EU countries will see your private messages. Is yours on the list?

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Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.dev to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 11 hours ago
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Chat Control: EU will see your private messages
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EU governments have finally agreed on a controversial new law that gives a backdoor to reading text messages and viewing photo messages
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    It’s kind of unclear what “voluntary” means. Is it voluntary for countries to enforce? Is it voluntary for companies to scan chats?

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      The later. However, they could still be fines for not doing what is needed to reduce “the risks of the of the chat app”, whatever the fuck that can mean when talking about illegal.content

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        Illegal content: anything that they don’t like.

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      I thought it was the latter.

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        In that case, is there any change? Companies could already do that if they wanted. Many of them already did.

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