Indeed from their history of constantly wanting more control and invasive measures, always sold in the name of security, protection of minors, etc… I’m highly sceptical and always asume the worst.
hisao@ani.social 3 weeks ago
It’s mind-blowing how at the same time one EU government guys pushing stuff like DSA while other do something like this (which is nice, and a complete opposite).
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
PonyOfWar@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
But those are all publicly available pieces of legislation. It’s quite a leap to go from that to just assuming they’ll secretly and illegally spy on you through public wifi networks, without any law allowing them to do so. Besides, if they have no problem doing that, why would internet through your European ISP be any safer?
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Never said the rest is safer, doesn’t mean they are ‘privacy friendly’, they aren’t.
It’s quite a leap to go from that to just assuming they’ll secretly and illegally spy on you
Plenty of stuff like this or this or this
And they did as much against Pegasus as they do against israel.
Some words and recommendations.22 EU clients, at least, have acquired it.
quite a leap to go from that to just assuming they will not spy on you as a collective, more than is already ‘publicly available’.
Organisations that spy usually don’t advertise their practices.PonyOfWar@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Plenty of stuff like this or this or this
Again, those are all pushes for legislation. None of which are implemented at this point. The EU is, for better and for worse, a bureaucratic monster. Anything it does has to go through a long process involving multiple oversight comittees, the commission, the parliament etc. It really doesn’t have the option for much secrecy. National governments are quite a different story.
BlueBockser@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
What’s the problem with the Digital Services Act?
rmuk@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Yeah, of all the things to criticise the EU for the DSA is a bizarre pick. Challenging techbro dominance with simple and technically-sensible demands on the gatekeepers is a win for the average person in my book.
hisao@ani.social 2 weeks ago
They tried to push it to the point of stripping encryption from internet altogether and when that didn’t work they tried demanding chat apps to be able to scan people messages before they send them. Maybe I’m confusing multiple entirely different things together, but I kinda heard that mostly with the abbreviation DSA flying around so I assumed it was sorta umbrella for all those things.
Wappen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nah that’s Chat Control. DSA is about online platforms while Chat Control is about private chats.
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
yeah the DSA seems good to me, largely because it mostly adresses vlops being shitty