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Chat control: EU attempt to bulk search private messages and destroy encryption
According to a document leaked by netzpolitik.org, the Belgian Council Presidency, led by conservative Home Affairs Minister Annelies Verlinden, proposes minor changes to the controversial EU Commission’s Chat Control 2.0 proposal (officially “child sexual abuse regulation”) in order to secure a maj
In reality, the proposal again aims to impose on communications services the unreliable automated mass monitoring of private chats of citizens who are not even remotely connected to child sexual abuse. This destruction of the digital privacy of correspondence has unanimously and repeatedly been rejected by independent legal experts as likely illegal and subject to annulment in court. Law enforcement paranoia about ‘threats’ and ‘risks’ does not justify deploying unreliable suspicion machines to search and expose the private and intimate communications of millions of law-abiding citizens.
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