DR, Denmark’s equivalent of the BBC, reports that:
The Danish presidency of the EU is currently working to gain support for the CSA regulation, which will open a backdoor to all Europeans’ phones in an attempt to trap and track down criminals who share sexual abuse material with children.
If the CSA regulation is voted through, police and judicial authorities will be able to access encrypted communication services such as WhatsApp and Signal – and thus the private communications of many millions of Europeans.
A leaked document from the European Council states that this will be done through client-side scanning . The technology works by scanning images, video and text on the user’s device before sending and encrypting them, including with the help of AI.
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The CSA regulation was taken off the agenda of the EU Council of Ministers in June 2024 due to the risk of mass surveillance of EU citizens and a concern that the law could represent a setback for freedoms.
But two months later, the Minister of Justice [Peter Hummelgaard] stated to TV 2 that “we need to break with the completely erroneous perception that it is every man’s right to freedom to communicate on encrypted messaging services, which are used to facilitate many different serious forms of crime”.
Let me fix that for you…
“we need to break with the completely erroneous perception that it is every man’s right to freedom to communicate in their living room, or on the street corner or at the pub, places which are used to facilitate many different serious forms of crime”.
Time to buy stock in microphone companies.
Can we add an addendum to the legislation where the government pinkie swears not to misuse the information?
Like criticising the Government perhaps? Or voting for the wrong country on Eurovision?
“the children” is a standard excuse for government action to destroy basic liberties – even in countries like Britain where it is horribly clear that the government does not give a damn about children (winking at their rape and other abuse – if done by groups the establishment supports).
Discovered Joys – yes this is sort of thing they want to crush, for example the British establishment were filled with rage that so many British people voted for Israel in the Eurovision song contest.
Fraser Orr – the government is there before you, soon the owners of pubs will have a legal duty to crush dissent, as such dissent might upset members of staff or other people. In Scotland the regime is indeed very interested (in a nasty way) in what you say in your own home.
It is very difficult to do a parody of the attacks on liberty in Britain – because when someone tries to write a parody, it turns out that the government is already in the process of doing the insane thing – for real.
Know what else is used to facilitate almost every other type of unspeakable crime?
Breathing.
We MUST ban unsupervised breathing.
For the children.
(ETA: Apparently, it is acceptable to rape kids in the UK, but taking pics of them is beyond the Pale.)
bobby b, we only just got the EPA to stop regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant.