Nytro Posted July 12, 2021 Report Posted July 12, 2021 #CHATCONTROL: EU PARLIAMENT APPROVES MASS SURVEILLANCE OF PRIVATE COMMUNICATIONS JULY 6, 2021 Brussels, 06/07/2021 – Today, the European Parliament approved the ePrivacy Derogation, allowing providers of e-mail and messaging services to automatically search all personal messages of each citizen for presumed suspect content and report suspected cases to the police. The European Pirates Delegation in the Greens/EFA group strongly condemns this automated mass surveillance, which effectively means the end of privacy in digital correspondence. Pirate Party MEPs plan to take legal action. In today’s vote, 537 Members of the European Parliament approved Chatcontrol, with 133 voting against and 20 abstentions.[1] According to police data, in the vast majority of cases, innocent citizens come under suspicion of having committed an offence due to unreliable processes. In a recent representative poll, 72% of EU citizens opposed general monitoring of their messages.[2] While providers will initially have a choice to search or not to search communications, follow-up legislation, expected in autumn, is to oblige all communications service providers to indiscriminate screening. Breyer: “This harms children rather than protecting them” German Pirate Party Member of the European Parliament Patrick Breyer, shadow rapporteur on the legislative proposal, comments: *“The adoption of the first ever EU regulation on mass surveillance is a sad day for all those who rely on free and confidential communications and advice, including abuse victims and press sources. The regulation deals a death blow to the confidentiality of digital correspondence. It is a general breach of the dam to permit indiscriminate surveillance of private spaces by corporations – by this totalitarian logic, our post, our smartphones or our bedrooms could also be generally monitored. Unleashing such denunciation machines on us is ineffective, illegal and irresponsible. Indiscriminate searches will not protect children and even endanger them by exposing their private photos to unknown persons, and by criminalising children themselves. Already overburdened investigators are kept busy with having to sort out thousands of criminally irrelevant messages. The victims of such a terrible crime as child sexual abuse deserve measures that prevent abuse in the first place. The right approach would be, for example, to intensify undercover investigations into child porn rings and reduce of the years-long processing backlogs in searches and evaluations of seized data.”* Marcel Kolaja, Czech Pirate Party MEP and Vice-President of the European Parliament, comments: “Post officers also do not open your private letters to see if you’re sending anything objectionable. The same rule should apply online. However, what this exception will do is an irrevocable damage to our fundamental right to privacy, Moreover, monitoring across large platforms will only lead to criminals moving to platforms where chat control will be technically impossible. As a result, innocent people will be snooped on a daily basis while tracking down criminals will fail.“ Pirates plan legal action against the regulation The EU’s plans for chat control have been confirmed to violate fundamental rights by a former judge of the European Court of Justice.[3] Patrick Breyer plans to take legal action against the regulation and is looking for victims of abuse who would file such a complainant. „Abuse victims are particularly harmed by this mass surveillance“, explains Breyer. „To be able to speak freely about the abuse they have suffered and seek help in a safe space is critical to victims of sexualised violence. depend on the possibility to communicate safely and confidentially. These safe spaces are now being taken away from them, which will prevent victims from seeking help and support.“ The European Commission has already announced a follow-up regulation to make chat control mandatory for all email and messaging providers. Previously secure end-to-end encrypted messenger services such as Whatsapp or Signal would be forced to install a backdoor. There is a considerable backlash against these plans: A public consultation carried out by the EU Commission revealed that 51% of all respondents oppose chat control for e-mail and messaging providers. 80% of respondents do not want chat control to be applied to encrypted messages. [4] Due to the resistance, EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johannson has postponed the proposal until September 2021. More Information on Chatcontrol: www.chatcontrol.eu [1] [2] https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/poll-72-of-citizens-oppose-eu-plans-to-search-all-private-messages-for-allegedly-illegal-material-and-report-to-the-police/ [3] https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Legal-Opinion-Screening-for-child-pornography-2021-03-04.pdf [4] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12726-Child-sexual-abuse-online-detection-removal-and-reporting-/public-consultation_de Sursa: https://european-pirateparty.eu/parliament-approves-chatcontrol/ 1 Quote
ardu2222 Posted July 12, 2021 Report Posted July 12, 2021 (edited) Foarte bine, asa si trebuie ! Chiar sunt satul de atatia teroristi si derbedei liberi ca sa nu mai zic ca la raionul de legume fructe este plin de hacheri... Ma bucur ca Europa urmeaza modelul de succes al Chinei ! Edited July 12, 2021 by ardu2222 1 Quote
yoyois Posted July 12, 2021 Report Posted July 12, 2021 Ca sa nu ne udam prea tare de ce zic piratii, luati in calcul ca partidul asta vrea voturi la urmatoarele alegeri care vin in germania anul asta. Quote Some U.S. providers of services such as Gmail and Outlook.com are already performing such automated messaging and chat controls. (https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/?lang=en) Cel mai nasol aspect e daca se introduce obligativitatea scanarii mesajelor. Atunci ar exista risul introducerii unui backdoor in end-to-end encryption. Pe de alta parte, poate firmele vor introduce scanarea asta inainte de encryptie, client-side. Treaba asta se face deja, totusi normalizarea ei duce la riscul ca alti actori sa intervina in proces. Daca se poate legat de pedofilie, se poate pune si un filtru pentru injurii la adresa guvernului. Poate pune si Disney un filtru pentru imagini/videouri copyright.. etc. Quote
andr82 Posted July 12, 2021 Report Posted July 12, 2021 18 minutes ago, yoyois said: Ca sa nu ne udam prea tare de ce zic piratii, luati in calcul ca partidul asta vrea voturi la urmatoarele alegeri care vin in germania anul asta. Cel mai nasol aspect e daca se introduce obligativitatea scanarii mesajelor. Atunci ar exista risul introducerii unui backdoor in end-to-end encryption. Pe de alta parte, poate firmele vor introduce scanarea asta inainte de encryptie, client-side. Treaba asta se face deja, totusi normalizarea ei duce la riscul ca alti actori sa intervina in proces. Daca se poate legat de pedofilie, se poate pune si un filtru pentru injurii la adresa guvernului. Poate pune si Disney un filtru pentru imagini/videouri copyright.. etc. daca populatiei ii convine de ce nu, sa puna surveillance in fiecare apartament sau camera de casa, asa se reduc riscurile pentru backdoor si altele... Quote
gigiRoman Posted July 12, 2021 Report Posted July 12, 2021 Acum e momentul pentru hookuri si moduri. Welcome to the past! Quote
Active Members SynTAX Posted July 12, 2021 Active Members Report Posted July 12, 2021 Oricum se intampla de ceva timp chestia ast. Doar ca a venit momentul sa o oficializeze. Quote
