EU to have AI automatically scan private chats (including encrypted messengers)
Seems like EU is planning to automatically have AI scan private chats and force messengers with E2E encryption to embed backdoor to do so. Justification is, as always it seems, to fight CP.. (wasn't this the "reason" why they wanted to introduce upload filters back then, too?).
What's your thought on this?
Anyway, might be worth looking into self-hosted Rocket Chat or the like for family and close friends..
Some sources:
https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2022/eu-kommission-will-alle-chatnachrichten-durchleuchten
https://netzpolitik.org/2021/eu-commission-why-chat-control-is-so-dangerous/
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Private solutions will be voided eventually.
Probably
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Read it as “Privates” will be voided
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Regardless the jurisdiction, the excuse for these kind of things always seems to be either CP or terrorism.. -_-'
Two quick ideas to consider for affected people in case SHTF (as I personally don't think self hosting would be practical):
https://www.securemessagingapps.com/ - unless other governments follow, for now, perhaps anything non-EU based would be OK?
So, if one is to pick one of the author's recommended solutions, this would mean that you might be better off switching to either Signal, Threema or Session (since the last recommendation, i.e. Wire, seems to have servers in the EU).
Based on my microbubble, I think Signal might be the most popular one ATM - YMMV.
OTR OMEMO @ Jabber XMPP using a trusted server... (although not as good of a choice compared to the ones above, IMHO, since AFAIK, this would still leak some metadata)
As for the question of which server you should trust, I was going to say e.g. http://jabber.ccc.de/ ... and, TBH, RN I'd still trust them
However, assuming this thing becomes reality, it might not be the best long-term choice, since Germany most likely will not be leaving the EU anytime soon
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PGP will void this i guess
What about
Lime
Telegram
Proton email
Yandex
In above context and by extension
Email service
Tutanota
Posteo
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I imagine it will not affect Signal users.
Just to be clear, you mean https://wiki.linphone.org/xwiki/wiki/public/view/Lib/Features/Instant Messaging/LIME/ (of which I've never heard...), and this wasn't a a typo of https://line.me/en/ ?
In case you actually did mean the latter, IMHO, it's probably not the most secure app around...
See my link above on secure messaging apps. (tl;dr bad practice=custom crypto, plus encryption disabled by default)
One of my email accounts is with them, but were I to be affected by the above law, I'm not sure I'd trust them 100%, as they seem to have something sketchy going on, e.g. https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/82330/#Comment_82330
What..?
Do they even provide any kind of encryption? 
Wouldn't be my first choice, because of metadata leaks by design...
Both are EU-based (DE) services, which might make them eventually an even worse choice than Yandex, depending on what this proposed law (?) ends up being (right now, they at least provide some kind of encryption, I guess?
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Also, can't say anything about Posteo, but right now, Tutanota seems to be complying with court wiretap orders (and I don't really blame them for that, dura lex, sed lex
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The article in OP from The Verge mentions something like "this would also apply to Signal".
These two also look interesting:
https://getsession.org/
https://status.im/
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What freaks me out more than this, is that it is part of a wider trend. All the western govs are rapidly going this route.
Not quite full blown citizen surveillance like a certain country, but "think of the children" we have to have more monitoring.
Fortunate enough to not actually have anything serious to hide as such...but the intrusion vexes me anyway out of principle
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Issue is that the sophisticated solutions are utterly useless in this context for practical reasons. The chances of me getting all my mates & mom onto a selfhosted encrypted chat app like matrix is approximately zero.
Even signal was already pushing the limits on that front...and its basically whatsapp with a different look
Denmark is working on that one
In the meantime, small website owners technically have to pay for GDPR lawyers and implement GDPR cookie consent, contact persons etc.
Allegedly, to protect the privacy of people who carry microfone+camera surveillance devices with them all day long, wherever they go.
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To an extent, even DNS will be recorded, because it's also a communication between devices.
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