EP rejects mass scanning of private messages - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
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This marks a positive development for human rights in one of the most controversial draft European Union (EU) laws in recent memory.
    • Pringles@lemm.eeEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I did. The European Parliament has its faults, but they usually make sensible decisions in the interest of the EU citizens.

      • ErilElidor@feddit.deEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Right. It’s often the European commission that comes up with insane ideas which are then reported as “it will probably happen”, before the parliament votes it down.

  • kbal@fedia.io
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    8 months ago

    Parliament firmly rejected rules which would force companies to scan huge volumes of people’s private messages – instead now requiring there to be reasonable suspicion

    One of the main concerns was that end-to-end encryption would be effectively prohibited, not just “undermined.” With respect to that, there is no difference between mass scanning of people’s private messages and selective scanning of people’s private messages based on suspicion. If you have strong end-to-end encryption both are equally impossible.

    That this is so often misunderstood or neglected in statements like this one is worrying. According to Patrick Breyer’s comments though, “End-to-end encrypted messengers are exempted.”

  • the_third@feddit.deEnglish
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    8 months ago

    …for now.

    See you all next year.

    Why am I so pessimistic? The people paid to push shit like this don’t have anything else to do. I DO have a lot of else to do. They’ll keep pushing and count on tiring privacy advocates out.