“Apart from the legal bit, that’s exactly how malware works. It compromises your device in order to gain access to information,” said Signal’s vice-president for global affairs, U…

If you are in the European Union, click this and do something.

There’s a kind of Orwellian inevitability to this: “Action to promote the wellbeing of children by combating child sexual abuse material (CSAM) … (2) The “CSAM requirement” is that any …

[Baroness Berger] also accused tech companies of lying when they say scanning encrypted messages isn’t possible. And maybe they are. But when your answer to that is “Well, we’ll just force them to …

Signal will not compromise user privacy in order to satisfy the UK Government. They could withdraw from UK app-stores, but further: they could block any account with an associated “+44”…

…that this is how all censorship circumvention works, and that content scanning will inevitably fail in the face of focused ingenuity.

I can’t decide if I approve of the coverage or disapprove of the “lone hacker” spin: The website, called Fight Chat Control, was set up by Joachim, a 30-year-old software engineer…

Feedback from Signal, WhatsApp, Messenger & Threema: A Meta spokesperson told netzpolitik.org that despite claims to the contrary, the new proposal from the Danish EU presidency continues to un…

Compare and contrast this tweet of mine from 2021 – recounting a true event – which I’ve been reposting & citing everywhere ever since:

2024 Australia: In November, the eSafety commissioner announced draft standards that would require the operators of cloud and messaging services to detect and remove known child abuse and pro-terro…

[He] warned that such measures, while framed as child protection, would erode the foundation of digital privacy [and] that any policy claiming to make society safer by weakening individual security…

“perhaps there’s a different approach they could try taking, other than surveilling everybody’s messages?”

Interesting video reflecting information that I would not describe as causative, but certainly influential. Chat control is not dead, it will be back soon.

Given how little notice the EU commission have taken of the EDPB regarding Chat Control, I don’t have high hopes: In January, the Home Office demanded that Apple create a way to get around th…

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