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Key EU parliament comitee took stance towards protecting end-to-end encryption, and no device scanning. A possible win for privacy (www.eff.org)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Thanks to more than 100 civil society groups joined us in speaking out against this proposal. So did thousands of individuals who signed the petition demanding that the EU “Stop Scanning Me.”

The LIBE comity has changed it's stance towards the on device scanning and message scanning.

The text is not final, but scheduled to confirm the new agreement on the 13th of November.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Parliament's position on the proposed law will now be against chat control, but the fight is not over: next we have to negotiate with member states. It's vital we keep the pressure on governments to end this madness.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We won the battle but not the war.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

We have to wait and see for eIDAS, let's hope with the changes to eIDAS dead, we'll have at least a few years of the Commission not proposing some dumb surveillance shit

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I thought they were on to do something with that article 45 that has something to do with CA certificates. When did they go back and decide not to do it?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That one is a lost battle, alas. We'll have to hack our browsers to make them secure, or download them via VPNs from the US.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

It still has to pass the vote beginning of next year.

[–] mayoi -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

end-to-end encryption

This wording is concerning, although arguably encrypting a file locally offline then decrypting it again is end-to-end too...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

End to end encryption means user to user.

Not a local storage... Your example is just an encrypted storage, there is no end.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago

a local storage

That's would cut down on the trafficks. Much bit. Many wow.

[–] mayoi -5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's what's concerning, it's implying that this won't be protected.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What this? The user to user or device encryption? From the article, it seems that they stand also against device scanning.

[–] mayoi -5 points 9 months ago

"This" refers to any other type of encryption. Such as encrypting individual files.