Peace, A new legislation proposal, dubbed Chat Control 2.0 but formally a "Proposal for a Regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse”, is now being discussed in the European Parliament.
Under the conditions of Chat Control 2.0, messaging platform providers would be required, with no option to abstain, to search data on every customer's phone, including private peer-to-peer chats and e-mails, and send potentially law-breaking (as determined by vague algorithms) pieces of data to authorities for examination. The proposal is explained in more detail here: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/ This is marginally relevant to specifically the Internet provider community, but is largely relevant to the tech community in the EU, because this initiative could be seen by many (including myself) as an attempt on mass surveillance which is violating the fundamental privacy rights of the EU citizens. My question to the coop-wg in that case would be, does the working group see merit in providing feedback on this proposal to the members of parliament, from the tech community standpoint? -- Töma
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