[cooperation-wg] EU's Chat Control 2.0: a feedback from RIPE?

Given the flocking to this bandwagon (UK too -vis Online harms) .

The sad answer to your ? is -- yes. it is necessary to put the record
straight that boiling oceans of private communications to select
for implied intentions completely out of context or reasonable grounds is a public
evil which won't help prevent the potential for another (unrelated) public evil. 

There should always be reasonable grounds and specificity in conducting
investigations which means "fishing expeditions" should always be called
out.

It also is not a convenient or cheap solution that the thin end of the
wedge presented by the big data salesmen proposing such schemes as easy
fixes are claiming. 

C

Töma Gavrichenkov <toema at skayaengineering.com> writes:

> Peace,
>
> A new legislation proposal, dubbed Chat Control 2.0 but formally a "Proposal for a Regulation laying down
> rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse”, is now being discussed in the European Parliament.
>
> Under the conditions of Chat Control 2.0, messaging platform providers would be required, with no option
> to abstain, to search data on every customer's phone, including private peer-to-peer chats and e-mails, and
> send potentially law-breaking (as determined by vague algorithms) pieces of data to authorities for
> examination.
>
> The proposal is explained in more detail here: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/
>
> This is marginally relevant to specifically the Internet provider community, but is largely relevant to the tech
> community in the EU, because this initiative could be seen by many (including myself) as an attempt on
> mass surveillance which is violating the fundamental privacy rights of the EU citizens.
>
> My question to the coop-wg in that case would be, does the working group see merit in providing feedback
> on this proposal to the members of parliament, from the tech community standpoint?
>
> -- 
> Töma


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