EU proposal to scan all private messages gains momentum

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Post by 6d6b73 » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 1:17 PM UTC

EU proposal to scan all private messages gains momentum
cointelegraph.com

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Post by philipallstar » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 1:45 PM UTC

Thank goodness the EU is regulating dangerous communication.

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Post by Cartoxy » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 1:58 PM UTC

This seam like a hopeless endeavor. If circumvention takes little to no effort the people that are already committed to CSAM are going to CSAM. And everyone else will just hate the burdensome bloat, etc.

If you know your not a theif having your bags checked after paying is an annoyance

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Post by olgeni » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 2:01 PM UTC

Every message will be scanned, except for von der Leyen's contract negotiations via SMS :D

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Post by superkuh » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 2:06 PM UTC

Seems like all regions of the world all falling into their own particular flavors of authoritarian fascism. EU's better than most but this is absolutely draconian. We all know this won't actually be feasible to implement but the end result of of this infeasibility will be a status quo where everyone is guilty of a crime by default when needed.

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Post by Havoc » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 2:15 PM UTC

Thank god AI never makes mistakes…

I pity whoever is going to be the first false positive guinea pig for this csam process. Functionally a guilty (as decided by algo) until proven innocent logic

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Post by echelon_musk » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 2:19 PM UTC

superkuh wrote: post #5

Seems like all regions of the world all falling into their own particular flavors of authoritarian fascism. EU's better than most but this is absolutely draconian. We all know this won't actually be feasible to implement but the end result of of this infeasibility will be a status quo where everyone is guilty of a crime by default when needed.

> won't actually be feasible to implement

Why wouldn't it be feasible to implement? Sadly, I don't share your optimism.

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Post by integralid » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 2:20 PM UTC

superkuh wrote: post #5

Seems like all regions of the world all falling into their own particular flavors of authoritarian fascism. EU's better than most but this is absolutely draconian. We all know this won't actually be feasible to implement but the end result of of this infeasibility will be a status quo where everyone is guilty of a crime by default when needed.

As an EU citizen I don't believe chat control will ever happen. We already had mass protests in my country during the last 20 years against internet and population control, and we will again if this becomes close to reality.

Maybe I'm delusional and I'll be severely disappointed I'm my country and the EU, but I don't think so. Who knows, time will tell.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 2:21 PM UTC

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Post by izzydata » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 2:21 PM UTC

I assume this is just a police state overreach rather than genuine intent to stop crime. They must know that anyone actually engaging in criminal activity is going to not be caught by this because they use other forms of encrypted communication.