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GDPR is a great idea, but I agree ill conceived and poorly executed
The idea is the information remains the customers as for far too long once it was handed over to corporations (even the doctors surgery) it was there information and the old data protection act wasn't really fit for purpose .... as technology has moved on and didn't really cover digital information also cyber crime didn't exist when the data protection act was useful
And for companies inside and outside the EU because it was ill thought out it was indeed an absolute nightmare
No, because now we get blue passport covers and have to learn the imperial system again. Rule Britannia!
I don't think many people understand AI has to/will make wrong choices to gain experience at getting right answers in the future. Anyone who doesn't understand AI WILL make errors by design can't be making decisions that AI affects.
But VPN is allowed there, while in China VPN tunnel without authorization is illegal. So you can just buy a VPN and use it to download torrent in UK.
Not that i am defending this shit, but it is increasingly pointless to fight the drip-drip of surveillance laws and regulations.
I am encrypting, Tor-ing and using fake identities for more than 10 years when I saw this coming as well as supporting all anonymizing and encrypting projects I could by donating resources and even money.
If you haven't created an off-the-grid identity yet, you are a retard, literally, in the sense of late to understand stuff and protect yourself.
This will always be like fighting "illegal immigration". Barriers, rules and regulations only apply to people obeying the law, the criminals will always keep coming so it will be a self-fulfilling prophecy, only criminals come from "shit-hole countries" because the law-abiding people are blocked by the law.
It will always be cumbersome and costly for regular people and law enforcement to monitor, authenticate, track IPs instead of people, policing can only be done correctly the old way, infiltrate, gather evidence, take down the ring/gang/cult/terrorist/whatever group. Mass surveillance will never work, there are rare occasions ppl don't know they are doing something illegal and will take counter measures, the government, companies, regular people, essentially, will pick up the bill for nothing. This is like the war on drugs, islam, immigration, etc. Everyone loses.
Good luck to them decrypting my telegram and signal messages...
I think they are more likely to urge telegram/signal to implement a backdoor before encryption happens, or have their apps removed from EU app stores. Ofc you can probably still side load the apps but that's still gonna be a steep decrease in users. Esp. when trying to convince not so techy friends to use such apps instead of WA etc.
This, they will require apps that use E2E (Telegram secret chat, WhatsApp, etc) to implement a backdoor of some sort, to get to messages before the encryption is applied.
There is no way on earth telegram, and especially signal, would destroy their reputation and raison d'être for the EU's sake. If they were to do that, they will lose many of their customers, which in this specific case are knowledgeable IT people, for a lot of the part.
Heck, even wars, not just in the Ukraine, but also in the mid east and beyond rely on them for security, and that includes MANY journalists.
I think Telegram will try to circumvent the rulings, government resistance is not new for them, they had plenty in Russia.
EU mandated all EU member states to block access to Russian news channels, but a lot of providers have not even done this. And it isn't actively enforced as far as I'm aware. Different topic but still relevant imo since it also applies to internet space.
Given a choice between destroying your reputation or livelihood, the obvious choice would be to lie about E2E or implement a side channel like Apple's "Private intersection" CP scanner.
But you do realize that even a hint of this would destroy them. Heck even isis the lowly creatures use it. Signal on the other hand... They wouldn't think twice, they would find a way around the EU and run circles around them.
What's next, ask for the Tor browser to send them info?
Never gonna happen!
I don't know what this is: an unwavering libertarian faith or just naiveté, but in the narrative spun by the EU, corporations are always the evil ones who must be controlled, and subverting the law would just reinforce the impression.
For me, Signal started to stink once they started peddling a shitcoin in their app.
https://www.wired.com/story/signal-mobilecoin-payments-messaging-cryptocurrency/
Thing is, if you want to get your not so techy friends, (older) family members etc to join one of those encrypted, privacy focused messengers, it's already tough. Now, imagine telling them the app has been removed from the app store in the EU and they'd have to sideload it. Even if you did sideload and install it for every single of your friends/family, it's a pita. So, in conclusion, if Signal/Telegram want to stay "viable" for the AppStore users, they'll comply. At the same time, if they don't and you have to sideload their apps you're likely to keep sending messages to yourself and maybe some other IT guys, because noone of your not so techy friends/family will use it.
India is way ahead of EU on that front. WhatAssp tried to sue Indian government in 2020 because they were asked to setup a surveillance system by breaking encryption.
There's a difference between breaking encryption (all messages) and having a compliance check that checks the data before/after encryption. It's trivial to add to keyboard/dictionary/spellcheck code and would be where to implement this. No encryption needed to be broken.
There's always been lawful search requirements for the historical stuff like phones and private correspondence. Courts can require third parties to give up encryption keys already for decades. This is just catching up in the 21st century technology.
You can't treat using other's infrastructure and resources as your own private property with all the privacy that entails. That's ridiculous expectation. How would you feel if you rented out a house and the renters were raping kids? And then the police come and arrest you for helping them. You would want to have a balance for the owner to say "I didn't know they were doing that" and give them the keys when told "there's kids being raped on your property". Taking the response "fuck you, I don't care if you think they're raping kids, throw me in jail since I'm actively helping them evade police and detection" is pretty shit and doesn't help society.
Years ago, BlackBerry took flack for helping in serious crimes like this when served with warrants. They got shit on and people flocked to Apple thinking they were more private and able to carry on their pedophile shit with impunity. They just had better PR than BlackBerry.
If you ever watch these CSI or whatever type shows, having a dedicated, global group to fight CP that can cross country lines without red tape is what the World needs. They just need a credible leader that the World can trust to run an elite task Force like that.
The kids can't fight CP and get out of their circumstances. We, the outside people really need to take up the effort to snuff out all this shit.
Whatsapp already have a "backdoor" that allows messages to be send to another party without the senders knowledge. A PhD researcher discovered it and informed Whatsapp. They didn't fix it. He concluded it's programmed in by Whatsapp on purpose to allow the backdoor.
see all govt doing this . now you cannot blame china,russia or India . Every country is doing the same eventually . While it can be used to solve crime, but law enforcement can misused it for mass surveillance as well
Then we have to self-host matrix or mastodon servers to protect our data?
@deank
The end is nigh.
Recommend getsession.org
hmmmm then they say china is the only one who hunt privacy. damn EU
Surveillance is a dangerous trend against human rights!
I read a comment somewhere that this scanning occurs on-device and no amount of self hosting can overcome this.
There is a solution: disconnect from internet. Let them have the whole internet. We might return back to LAN and offline private networks.
Sticking to hardened open-source options (like GrapheneOS for Mobile) could be a solution practically.
The fight against CP have not to allow automatically scan private chats.