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Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU. (mullvad.net)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Under the slogan ‘Think of the children’, the European Commission tried to introduce total surveillance of all EU citizens. When the scandal was revealed, it turned out that American tech companies and security services had been involved in the bill, generally known as ‘Chat Control’ – and that the whole thing had been directed by completely different interests. Now comes the next attempt.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I thought the EU has been pretty good on privacy so far. Of course the US is trying to duck it up.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The EU has been good on privacy against other actors. The EU is very bad when it comes to personal privacy from its constituent governments.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ah. Well that sucks =(