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MEP Patrick Breyer, representing Germany via the Pirate Party, has written that there is a short time left to provide input to the public consultation on the proposal to eliminate encrypted services in Europe. The deadline is April 15th. He goes over the key survey questions to pay particular attention to, the gist of the draft legislation is as follows:
- The EU Commission is drafting permanent legislation on the automatic searching of all online activities, including personal electronic mail and messages of each citizen, for suspicious content in the search for child pornography. Suspected cases would be notified to the police. An online consultation is underway until 15 April. It includes questions on whether private communications should be covered and whether backdoors to end-to-end encrypted communications services should be required to enable this monitoring.
- Such privatised mass surveillance is unprecedented in western democracies and would have unacceptable consequences for our freedom of communications and expression. According to police reports, in the vast majority of cases, innocent citizens come under suspicion of having committed an offence due to unreliable processes.
- Therefore, please participate in the ongoing consultation. The responses will be taken into account by the Commission when deciding on the content of the planned legislation. So far, almost only child protection organizations and industry stakeholders have participated.
- The public consultation on chat control legislation is open until 15 April: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12726-Child-sexual-abuse-online-detection-removal-and-reporting-/public-consultation
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Anti-Encryption EU Consultation Open Until April 15th
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A stitch in time saves nine.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @03:34PM
the children need to be protected so they can become upstanding unmolested cannon fodder in the coming 1 billion men wars ...
i really think that parents or the source of children and subsequent abuse of them should be accountable ... not the wider internet!
if this law passes there will be first requirment on encryption software but it will escalate very soon and the backdoor will soon be mandated on the operating level ...
and anyways if cheap profit enhancing chinese equipment does "backdooring" then it's bad but some letters on a piece of paper requires the SAME then it's good (nothing different but a ficional line in the sand)!
lastly taking piece of mind of private comms FROM everyone because of a FEW perversts (and bad parents) does not sound right but rather like a straw argument.
now, really lastly, no modern network is a "bare metal" network but are rather "overlay" networks so following packets, impersonating a pervert as a policeman/woman, boots on the ground and hiring "hackers" that can find one in miriard software flaws is enough to find 'em pervs ... no need for a "kollektiv strafe".
in conlusion " think about the kids, but not too much!"
end note: internet is 99% hard and software NOT made in europe, so LOL.
now really really the end: maybe them europaburocrats need to ask themselfs why there are so many pervers in europe? maybe you're ever increasing repressive laws are driving normal people desperate (their way of "rebelling")?