EU ministers welcome mandatory chat screening on all smartphones.

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  1. >It would oblige providers of messenger services such as Whatsapp and email services to automatically search encrypted and unencrypted communications, private messages and attached photos for suspected content and report it to the police.

    https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/a-new-controversy-erupts-around-ursula-von-der-leyen-s-text-messages-a-6510951f-e8dc-4468-a0af-2ecd60e77ed9

    >The European Commission Deletes Mass Amounts of Emails and Doesn’t Archive Chats
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    >Each month, the European Commission deletes several thousand emails and texts, and WhatsApp messages are not archived at all. Now, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is, once again, facing uncomfortable questions about allegedly deleted text messages.

    >In that respect, “the Commission record-keeping policy would in principle exclude instant messaging.” This means that if the Commission wants to keep something in the dark, it can simply use WhatsApp.

    I feel like there’s more enthusiasm for monitoring than being monitored.

  2. >european-pirateparty.eu

    biased source, a political campaign without the original source

    …remove?

    plus, it was originally only consulted about the very same plan Apple had, to detect CHILD PORNOGRAPHY images.

    And now people in the comments get outraged about ‘breach of privacy’

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