EU Council approves Chat Control mandate for negotiation with Parliament
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#2Is this the end of secure communication within EU?
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#3Note this is the council position
The path from position to actual implementation (details) is long
And you can bet there's still a lot of opposition of people (with actual involvement in the legislative process)
And legal hurdles for implementation as well
(this all reminds me of the discussion around the copyright directive where people here were decrying it was going to be the end of memes. So, how did that go again?)
Re: EU Council approves Chat Control mandate for negotiation with Parliament
#4In a nutshell, there will be no more intrusions into chats, but only obligations for the companies to provide preferential channels for victims of these crimes.
Re: EU Council approves Chat Control mandate for negotiation with Parliament
#5Seems… fine? At least i dont see any invasion of privacy or encryption related obligations in this proposal.
The EU ostensibly wants to improve innovation, i wonder how these new assessment regulations help with that, especially for SME and startups.
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#6I know it's the recognized term for 'officially designated authority', but 'competent authority' seems to conflate two traits that do not necessarily co-habit.
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#7I know it's the recognized term for 'officially designated authority', but 'competent authority' seems to conflate two traits that do not necessarily co-habit.
Just read it as ”we have the competence to make decisions with authority on this issue”, though we all wish it always meant ”we have authority to make competent decisions on this issue” xD
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#8I know it's the recognized term for 'officially designated authority', but 'competent authority' seems to conflate two traits that do not necessarily co-habit.
Legal competence is like a legal person — it's a subset of what we normally associate with the term.
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#9Seems… fine? At least i dont see any invasion of privacy or encryption related obligations in this proposal. The EU ostensibly wants to improve innovation, i wonder how these new assessment regulations help with that, especially for SME and startups.
"High risk" providers will be obligated to "contribute" technologies "to mitigate." Seems like a doublespeak way of saying enforced decryption or enforced backdoors.
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#10The crux is in those „risk assessments”, to be approved by authorities. IIUC those authorities will be able to designate e.g. Signal „high risk” and slap penalties unless they „mitigate” the risk. Hard to tell what will happen without seeing final regulation.