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Politicians really like to use "child pornography" as a wedge issue for surveillance as it's a topic that people overwhelmingly see as "a bad thing". This screams slippery slope.
It's agendas like these when you realize submitting your country laws to legislation from Brusel was a fatal error.
I'm sorry, what country were you from again, that has a human rights record so much cleaner than the EU? It sounds like a lovely place.
Could someone more knowledgeable weigh in on what the EU has to show as far as a "human rights record" ?
As the developer of an E2EE chat system, how could this affect me? Would I be forced to do something? I fall under a non-EU jurisdiction, and my servers are also outside of the EU. Would this apply to me or my users in the least? Thanks
I'm not a lawyer, but I suppose it will apply in the same way GDPR applies to anyone who wants to access the EU market (regardless of where you/your servers are). That is, if you're fine with your system not being accessible from the EU because of non-compliance you should be fine? Don't take my word for it though, I'm just assuming. Maybe somebody with more knowledge chan chime in.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> far from a direct democracy. And? Direct democracies are far worth than representative democracies in practically everyway. The Covid crisis should have made clear to all that people are not policies experts. Given than no country in the UE significantly uses direct democracy (referendums are pretty much never used and always devolve into a ridiculous race to who can say the most outrageous thing in front of the me…
You realize that Switzerland hasen't voted to wear masks and get restrictions? Having a direct democracy does not mean the gov can't make their own decisions at times.
Politicians really like to use "child pornography" as a wedge issue for surveillance as it's a topic that people overwhelmingly see as "a bad thing". This screams slippery slope.
If it becomes mandatory for email providers to screen emails, will services such as Protonmail become illegal in the EU? Since they don't have access to their users' email content because of encryption.
I'm wondering the same. I suppose they will have to implement some way to scan the emails, or else they will be forced out of business. That said, I wouldn't bet on it.
It's agendas like these when you realize submitting your country laws to legislation from Brusel was a fatal error.
Does anybody have an idea how big child pornography is on the internet? Are those measures commensurate with the size of the problem? I'm asking seriously.
On a previous HN submission [1] it's about 0.06%, more than I expeted. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28110159
I'm wondering how long until inconvenient people(or people with inconvenient opinions) are targeted for blackmailing material with a system like this.
Depressingly, I'm sure most people won't care. But hey, I can hope.