EU Commission tried to influence political views in the fight over the heavily criticized #chatcontrol regulation: Political Microtargeting by EU Commission was illegal https://noyb.eu/en/political-microtargeting-eu-commission-illegal #Chatkontrolle
#chatcontrol
#CSAM Regulation Update: Dutch #Intelligence agency weighs in
Source: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/dutch-intel-service-csam-update/
The resulting situation is regarded by #AIVD as too large a risk for our #digital #resilience. (…) Applying detection orders to providers of end-to-end encrypted communications entails too large a #security risk for our digital resilience.
#news #backdoor #encryption #e2e #chat #communication #surveillance #bigbrother #cybercrime #cybersecurity #chatcontrol #privacy #eu #politics #Software #Europe #Smartphone #mobile
#Telegram will start #moderating private chats after #CEO’s arrest
Earlier today, Durov issued his first public statement since his arrest, promising to moderate content more on the platform — a noticeable change in tone after the company initially said he had “nothing to hide”. “It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform,” the company wrote in an unattributed statement posted in August.
#PavelDurov #Durov #chat #privacy #justice #france #EU #legal #surveillance #news #internet #communication #chatcontrol #economy #jail
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Take action to stop chat control now!
Chat control is back on the agenda of EU governments. They will discuss “progress” on 10/11 October and are to endorse it on 12/13 December.
In June we managed to stop the unprecedented plan by an extremely narrow “blocking minority” of EU governments: Chat control proponents achieved 63.7% of the 65% of votes threshold required in the Council of the EU for a qualified majority.
Several formerly opposed governments such as France have already given up their opposition. Several still critical governments are only asking for small modifications (e.g. searching for “known content” only or excluding end-to-end encryption) which would still result in mass searches and leaks of our private communications. Therefore there is a real threat that the required majority for mass scanning of private communications may be achieved at any time under the current Hungarian presidency (Hungary being a supporter of the proposal).
That is why we now need to get involved and raise our voices to our governments and raise awareness in the wider population.
→ Previously supportive governments must be convinced to change their minds
→ Critical governments need to be pushed to demand comprehensive changes, as proposed by the European Parliament, and not just minor changes to the proposal.
In the absence of such fundamental revision, the proposal should be rejected altogether.
#ChatControl! Is your government opposing yet?" Showing most of the EU coloured in red, for "in favour" of chatcontrol. "Act now! www.chatcontrol.eu" and the logo of the European Pirates and the Greens Group of the European Parliament.">
This map (feel free to share online!) visualises EU governments positions on chat control in June, also summarised in the table below. It helps you understand where your government stands and can help you start your journey as a digital rights advocate against chat control in your country. You will find some helpful resources below.
Is your government in favour?
→ Ask for an explanation and for your government to revert its course.
Is your government abstaining?
→ Ask why and demand that they take a strong stance against chat control.
Is your government opposing?
→ Great, but take a closer look at the reasoning: Some governments like Germany e.g. only object to the scanning of encrypted communications, but are fine with the indiscriminate scanning of other private and public communication, with the end of anonymous communication by requiring age verification, or with introducing a minimum age for “risky” communication apps. Also critical governments need to do more, exert their influence in the Council of the EU and agree on a joint list of necessary fundamental changes to the proposal. Absent such revision they should ask the European Commission to withdraw the chat control proposal as it stands.
Where your government stands on chat control
In favourAbstainedOpposed the proposalBelgiumEstoniaGermanyBulgariaNetherlandsPolandCroatiaSloveniaCyprusCzech RepublicDenmarkAustriaFinlandGreeceHungaryIrelandItalyLatviaLithuaniaLuxembourgMaltaPortugalRomaniaSlovakiaSpainSweden
Take action now
These are ideas for what you can do in the short-term or with some
preparation. Start with:
- Ask you government to call on the European Commission to withdraw the chat control proposal. Point them to a joint letter that was recently sent by children’s rights and digital rights groups from across Europe. Click here to find the letter and more information.
- Check your government’s position (see above) and, if they voted in favour or abstained, ask them to explain why. Tell them that as a citizen you want them to reject the proposal, that chat control is widely criticised by experts and that none of the proposals tabled in the Council of the EU so far are acceptable. Ask them to protect the privacy of your communication and your IT security.
- Share this call to action online.
When reaching out to your government, the ministries of the interior (in the lead) of justice and of digitisation/telecommunications/economy are your best bet. You can additionally contact the permanent representation of your country with the EU.
It can also be useful to reach out to Members of your national Parliament who can determine your country’s vote. Talk to your political representatives. Whether it is the newly elected MEPs of the European Parliament or local groups of the political parties: make sure everyone is aware of what chat control is about and that you expect politicians to defend your fundamental rights against the proposal!
When contacting politicians, writing a real letter, calling in or attending a local party event or visiting a local office to have a conversation will have a stronger impact than writing an e-mail. You can find contact details on their websites. Just remember that while you should be determined in your position, remain polite, as they will otherwise disregard what you have to say. Here is useful argumentation on chat control. And here is argumentation for why the minor modifications so far envisioned by EU governments fail to address the dangers of chat control: by us, by EDRi, by CDT.
As we continue the fight against against chat control, we need to expand the resistance:
- Explain to your friends why this is an important topic. This short video, translated to all European languages, is a good start – feel free to use and share it. Also available on PeerTube (EN) and YouTube (DE).
- Taking action works better and is more motivating when you work together. So try to find allies and form alliances. Whether it is in a local hackspace or in a sports club: your local action group against chat control can start anywhere. Then you can get creative and decide which type of action suits you best.
Take action now. We are the resistance against chat control!
Tadaaaa 🥳, da isse wieder die gute alte Chatkontrolle ...
Von: Patrick Breyer
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social
🇩🇪 #Chatkontrolle zurück auf der Agenda: Ungarn plant bis zum Ende des Jahres eine Einigung im Rat der EU zu erzielen.
Wir müssen uns jetzt schon darauf vorbereiten. Der erste Schritt: suche Verbündete um gemeinsam handeln zu können!
https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-11222-2024-INIT/en/pdf#page=30
So, #Chatkontrolle ist erstmal vom Tisch. Bis zum nächsten Versuch. Und der Kündigt sich schon an. Lest selbst ...
Going Dark-Expertengruppe – Überwachungsschmiede der EU
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Inhalt:
· Was ist #EUGoingDark?
· Was machen die Piraten gegen diese Pläne?
· 42 Kernpunkte des geheimen #EUGoingDark-Überwachungsplans
· Die dunkle Arbeitsweise von #EUGoingDark
· Presseberichte
· Dokumente
Was ist #EUGoingDark?
Das #EUGoingDark-Programm ist eine EU-Arbeitsgruppe, die im Juni 2023 von der EU-Kommission gegründet wurde. Ihr offizieller Name lautet »Hochrangige Gruppe für den Zugang zu Daten für eine wirksame Strafverfolgung« (Website).
Den Vorsitz hat die EU-Kommission gemeinsam mit der rotierenden EU-Ratspräsidentschaft, das sind die Regierungen der EU-Mitgliedsländer.
Offiziell hat die Gruppe den Auftrag, in einem offenen Prozess Vorschläge für politische Strategien und Gesetze zu den Herausforderungen bei der digitalen Strafverfolgung zu erarbeiten.
In Wirklichkeit handelt es sich bei #EUGoingDark um eine intransparente Überwachungsschmiede: Polizeien und Regierungen ignorieren die Zivilgesellschaft und wollen ungestört die Vorratsdatenspeicherung wieder einführen und Verschlüsselung aushebeln.
Fazit: Hier werden im Dunkeln undemokratische Vorverhandlungen geführt, die der nächsten EU-Kommission als Blaupause für zukünftige Überwachungsgesetze dienen sollen.
#EUGoingDark #EUGoingDark-Programm #Datenschutz #Netzpolitik #Chatkontrolle #ChatControl #EUAbstimmung #PatrickBreyer #Privatspäre
Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
French pet owners recognise the futility of attempting #ChatControl.
#Massenüberwachung #Chatkontrolle #chatcontrol #StopChatcontrol #Privatsphäre #EU
♲ Hendrik Klünner :verified: - 2024-06-19 13:41:20 GMT
Eine nie dagewesene Massenübrwachung ermöglichen, wähend die Faschisten in #Europa immer mehr an Einfluss gewinnen. Was soll schon schief gehen?#Chatkontrolle
Die #EU wird immer mehr zum Totengräber der #Bürgerrechte.
#Chatkontrolle #chatcontrol #Massenüberwachung #Überwachung #privacy #Privatsphäre #PoweredByRSS
https://hackers.town/@c0debabe/112547921504928271 c0debabe@hackers.town - New Veilid Foundation blog post
"Opposition to Chat Control"
https://veilid.org/blog/chat-control/
Patrick Breyer #PiratenWählen on X: "🇬🇧🚨Beware: The #ChatControl proposal which has been stalling could be adopted by EU governments after all. France is considerung to give up its resistance. The "compromise": Either you agree to have your chats scanned or you can no longer share&receive pictures/videos and" / X https://twitter.com/echo_pbreyer/status/1796467994500948418
Tags: #dandelíon #surveillance #privacy #EU #1984
via dandelion* client (Source)
According to the latest draft text of the controversial EU Child Sexual Abuse Regulation proposal leaked by the French news organization Contexte, which the EU member states discussed, the EU interior ministers want to exempt professional accounts of staff of intelligence agencies, police and military from the envisaged scanning of chats and messages (Article 1 (2a)). The regulation should also not apply to “confidential information” such as professional secrets (Article 1 (2b)). The EU governments reject the idea that the new EU Child Protection Centre should support them in the prevention of child sexual abuse and develop best practices for prevention initiatives (Article 43(8)).
“The fact that the EU interior ministers want to exempt police officers, soldiers, intelligence officers and even themselves from chat control scanning proves that they know exactly just how unreliable and dangerous the snooping algorithms are that they want to unleash on us citizens,” commented Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer.
It just keeps on crawling back time and time again like a freaking zombie
#chatcontrol #Chatkontrolle #chatcontrole #privacy #europe #democracy #surveillance
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Patrick Breyer
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social
🇩🇪 🚨Alarm: Der neue belgische Ratsvorsitz will Annahme der #Chatkontrolle durch die EU-Innenminister schon am 3./4. März. Der Kampf um unser digitales Briefgeheimnis und sichere Verschlüsselung geht weiter! https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-17069-2023-INIT/fr/pdf
(Leider nur in Französisch, keine Ahnung warum es da keine Übersetzung gibt. a.v.m.)
🇬🇧 🚨 Alarm: New Belgian Presidency wants EU governments to approve #ChatControl #CSAR #masssurveillance scheme on 4-5 March.
The #chatcontrol fight is back alive!
Link zum Toot: https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/111731829619697353
A good year for privacy, a bad year for #chatcontrol – The European Parliament said “no way” to the undermining of encryption and the surveillance of people’s digital private lives https://edri.org/our-work/2023-a-good-year-for-privacy-a-bad-year-for-chat-control/ #Chatkontrolle
Νίκη στην Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση του Ευρωπαϊκού Κόμματος Πειρατών κατά της μαζικής παρακολούθησης
Μετά από εκστρατεία ενάντια στο εργαλείο μαζικής παρακολούθησης που σχεδιαζόταν με αφορμή την οδηγία για την προστασία των παιδιών από σεξουαλική κακοποίηση (CSAR), η Επιτροπή Πολιτικών Ελευθεριών, Δικαιοσύνης και Εσωτερικών Υποθέσεων ενέκρινε έναν συμβιβασμό μεταξύ των διαπραγματευτών όλων των πολιτικών ομάδων.
Οι ευρωβουλευτές συμφώνησαν να προστατεύσουν την κρυπτογράφηση και να αναθεωρήσουν πλήρως την αρχική πρόταση της Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής, η οποία προέβλεπε την αδιάκριτη μαζική παρακολούθηση όλων των πολιτών της ΕΕ σε αναζήτηση ύποπτου περιεχομένου. Αντίθετα, οι νέοι κανόνες θα επικεντρωθούν στην αποτελεσματική προστασία των παιδιών μέσω στοχευμένης επιτήρησης, ασφαλών προεπιλεγμένων ρυθμίσεων για υπηρεσίες και πολλά άλλα.
Ο Ευρωβουλευτής του Κόμματος των Πειρατών Patrick Breyer, Σκιώδης Εισηγητής της Ομάδας Greens/EFA στην Επιτροπή LIBE, σχολιάζει:
"Υπό την πίεση των μαζικών διαδηλώσεων ενάντια στον επικείμενο αδιακρίτως εκτεταμένο έλεγχο συνομιλιών και τη μαζική σάρωση ιδιωτικών μηνυμάτων, καταφέραμε να κερδίσουμε ευρεία πλειοψηφία για μια διαφορετική, νέα προσέγγιση στην προστασία των νέων από κακοποίηση και εκμετάλλευση στο διαδίκτυο. Ως Πειρατής και μαχητής της ψηφιακής ελευθερίας, είμαι υπερήφανος για αυτή την εξέλιξη. Οι νικητές αυτής της οδηγίας είναι αφενός τα παιδιά μας, τα οποία θα προστατευτούν πολύ πιο αποτελεσματικά και με τρόπο που να μπορεί να σταθεί στα δικαστήρια, και αφετέρου όλοι οι πολίτες, των οποίων η ψηφιακή ιδιωτικότητα της αλληλογραφίας και η ασφάλεια της επικοινωνίας θα εξασφαλίζονται."
Ο Ευρωβουλευτής του Κόμματος των Πειρατών Marcel Kolaja, Σκιώδης Εισηγητής για τις Απόψεις της Ομάδας Greens/EFA στις Επιτροπές IMCO και CULT, σχολιάζει:
"Η πρόταση της Επιτροπής για γενικευμένη παρακολούθηση της διαδικτυακής επικοινωνίας υπό το πρόσχημα της νομοθεσίας προστασίας των παιδιών ήταν οργουελιανή, ανήθικη και ακατάλληλη για τον σκοπό της. Τώρα, χάρη στις προσπάθειές μας, το Κοινοβούλιο στέκεται πίσω από το δικαίωμα των πολιτών σε ιδιωτική επικοινωνία καθώς και στην προστασία των ανηλίκων στο διαδίκτυο."
"Σύμφωνα με την οδηγία του Ευρωπαϊκού Κοινοβουλίου, μόνο ένας δικαστής θα μπορεί να διατάξει τη σάρωση ιδιωτικών επικοινωνιών, και μόνο για συγκεκριμένους υπόπτους. Έχουμε επίσης προστατεύσει την κρυπτογράφηση από άκρο σε άκρο ιδιωτικών μηνυμάτων και διασφαλίσαμε ότι ακόμη και οι ανήλικοι μπορούν να συνεχίσουν να χρησιμοποιούν εφαρμογές μηνυμάτων όπως το WhatsApp ή το Matrix. Παροτρύνουμε τις εθνικές κυβερνήσεις να αναγνωρίσουν την ανάγκη προστασίας των παιδιών και της ιδιωτικότητας στο διαδίκτυο και να υποστηρίξουν την έκδοση του κειμένου που προωθείται από το Ευρωπαϊκό Κοινοβούλιο"
Στο θέμα αυτό είχαμε αναφερθεί και ως Κόμμα Πειρατών Ελλάδας στα πλαίσια της ΔΕΘ, τον Οκτώβριο του 2022.
Η συμφωνία αποτελεί επιτυχία των μελών του Ευρωπαϊκού Κοινοβουλίου του Κόμματος Πειρατών.
#ΚομμαΠειρατωνΕλλαδας #Ευρωκοινοβουλιο #chatcontrol #ΔελτιοΤυπου
https://www.pirateparty.gr/2023/11/niki-stin-evropaiki-enosi-csar/
Maladministration: The lack of transparency from the Commission is deeply worrying, more so considering the links to lobbyists https://www.iccl.ie/news/ombudsman-european-commissions-concealment-of-secret-expert-list-on-csam-regulation-constitutes-maladministration/ #chatcontrol
Opposez-vous à Chat Control !
https://framablog.org/2023/10/25/opposez-vous-a-chat-control/
#ChatControl #UE #UnionEuropéenne #Chiffrement #ViePrivée #Politique
Lack of effectiveness, necessity and proportionality: There is a unprecedented consensus that the #chatcontrol proposal is not only ineffective, but also harmful https://edps.europa.eu/system/files/2023-10/edsp_briefing-note_csam_proposal-the_point_of_no_return_0.pdf (pdf)
Not only a privacy problem. It appears to be possible to DDoS the #chatcontrol system. Depending on the number of participating activists, and the number of images they exchange, this might overwhelm and thus DDoS it https://blog.xot.nl/2023/10/04/ddos-ing-client-side-scanning/