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Chat surveillance law by the EU Parliament?
(results.elections.europa.eu)
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this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2024
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nope, they'll vote on it again in the few weeks. if it passes, e2ee messengers will be required to scan images on device before sending them. you will be able to not agree to that, but then you won't be able to send or receive media and links, only text.
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/
But why can't you just use software from GitHub or F-Droid or something that doesn't have to obey these laws? Is it illegal?
In fact it would be illegal but you wouldn't take risks by using them. But the authorities could make them shut down one by one
Even if this is illegal - how would such usage be detected? Your device just makes a request to a random domain on a random VPS, and the traffic is TLS-encrypted - would usage of XMPP/Matrix/whatever be that distinct?
I totally understand and this approval is absolutely ridiculous just because it's almost impossible apply this... But even with almost 0 chance applying to every apps it's better to kill this law as soon as possible