If the programs were anything like this, I don’t blame them. There’s a fine line between child protection and surveillance.
Telegram repeatedly refused to join child protection schemes
Submitted 2 months ago by VITecNet@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy54905nv0go
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potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id 2 months ago
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Bingo. The article even says that Telegram has removed confirmed content.
30p87@feddit.org 2 months ago
Hmm. I think many services just don’t and can’t participate because they’d need to break E2EE. Telegram wouldn’t with most chats.
Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
When the West wants to censor the internet its always either child protection or national security.
Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The west
Are authoritarian regimes somehow supposed to be more opposed to using children to promote heightened surveillance?
Count042@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I mean… Yes?
They don’t need to lie to sell their oppression. They just do it because they’re authoritarian.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Authoritarian regimes also do the same, although often with adult consentual porn instead of CSAM.
Doorbook@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Authoritian regimes doesnt need to pretend. If they find out you are a risk they don’t need to gather evidence to get you in prison, so they don’t need to pretend they care about censoring the internet for the wrong reasons.
The issue here is the west want to do the same but need a valid justification. Instead of work to stop the actual abuse in the first place they want access to the only way for many people to share information safely.
You could be technically letrate and find your way around all the restrictions, but many people are not and they need access to secure communication channels to arrange there activism.
The fact we don’t see backlash against twitter, Facebook, Google, and Apple tells alot about what is this about.
The fact we are seeing more support for “consent” for kids, and the fact that there were many major cases such as Epstein and Maxwell which has been obscured or even hidden when it comes to major profilic people says alot about their intent.
nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Thank you for choosing “Tyranny as a Service!”
How would you like this wrapped? [] Terrorism [X] Child porn
parpol@programming.dev 2 months ago
If they refused to hand over data that they had about individuals on a warrant, I can see how the arrest was kind of justified.
If the arrest was for refusing to install a backdoor for law enforcement to spy on anyone they want, then France needs to be kicked out of EU and sanctioned for human rights violations.
merde@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Systemic racism and religious discrimination persisted, including against Muslim women and girls. Racial profiling continued with impunity. Excessive restrictions on protests and excessive use of force by police continued. Mass protests and unrest followed the killing of a 17-year-old boy of Algerian descent by police at a traffic stop. Racist, xenophobic and anti-LGBTI vandalism and violent attacks were frequently reported. Parliament passed highly controversial new laws authorizing the use of mass video surveillance technology by law enforcement and introducing discriminatory immigration, nationality and asylum restrictions.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2 months ago
then France needs to be kicked out of EU and sanctioned
This isn’t how the EU works.
parpol@programming.dev 2 months ago
I’m exaggerating, but France should be held accountable.
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Why would they be kicked out of the EU? The EU wants this too: theverge.com/…/eu-chat-control-law-propose-scanni…
HarriPotero@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They’ve been delaying a vote on it because they haven’t had enough support to get it through.
Looks like they’ll prepare another round in October, which would be voted on in December. They’ll want this to pass under the radar, preferably behind closed doors.
Seems enough countries have changed their stance that it could pass this time, unless we keep putting pressure on our representatives.
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The manufacturing consent system seems to be in full swing on this one.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If there were a good alternative in the sense of public channels that don’t usually get banned, my consent they would get even earlier.
But the issue is - I don’t even know where to go to discuss shit. Despite TG being full of government trolls.
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Despite TG being full of government trolls.
That’s the world we live in now. If it’s popular it will be full of trolls, government, corporate, all kind. Just somewhat popular, they are here on Lemmy too.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Did religions joined child protection schemes? Because they are one of the biggest child indoctrination and abuse schemes in the world.
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Ruling class has been waging war on social media they dont have the ability to backdoor. My guess is they’d come for signal too if they didn’t use it themselves.
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The government don’t usually need the text from your conversations, just the metadata who the person talks to, their location, etc. Signal is a US company, they surely provide all that data. It seems Telegram didn’t.
Lowpast@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Signal does not. signal.org/bigbrother/santa-clara-county/
Tl;dr: Signal gave the court timestamps for three out of nine phone numbers that the court demanded data on. The timestamps were the dates three phone numbers last registered their accounts with Signal. That’s it. That is all the data there was to give.
This is why I use Signal. This is why I donate monthly to Signal.
sumguyonline@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Schemes” it’s as if they know they aren’t actually protecting anyone… Like they would just let anyone torment their children if they claimed religious protections and offered a big enough bribe(I know for a fact that is how it actually works). But sure, telegram is the problem not fed bastards hunting innocent people because the bad people bribed them to leave them alone. Be a 1% or be investigated when you don’t cow toe to the 1%. Your choice apparently.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
imagine going to jail just because you refused to address the child abuse and csam on your own network.
Doorbook@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Imagine only targetting Telegram and not Meta and Twitter.
beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Putin loves Elon (& got him to ruin Xhitter apparently) so no, Elon won’t get arrested
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
meta does get pointed out but not as much since meta actually does things to combat csam.
twitter gets called out ALL the time mostly because elon himself is intervening to reinstate people who share csam because he firedall the trust and safety teams.
HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Huh, it’s maybe as if, nooooo… it couldn’t be, the Zuck and Elon are my trusted friends, my confidants, they wouldn’t. They couldn’t. No way in hell they’d sell or otherwise compromise my personal data
Mac@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Telegram: “Man, fuck them kids bruh!”
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Those programs are about mass surveillance and are wrapping themselves in the sheep wool of “protecting kids”
atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Doesn’t mean they shouldn’t moderate.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Did the child protection schemes involve compromising the security of communications on the app?
yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
The BBC contacted Telegram for comment about its refusal to join the child protection schemes and received a response after publication which has been included.
Where is it? I didn’t find it anywhere in the article.
ToastToastToast@toast.ooo 2 months ago
Great. Fuck kids
atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No no, that’s the point. You’re not supposed to fuck kids.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Frankly, good.
There has yet to be any of these purported “child protection” scams that would do a damn thing for kids, and only invades the privacy of people that have zero reason to be investigated in the first place
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
yeah cracking down on the child trafficking networks operating on telegram would totally not do a thing /s
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It wouldn’t. Anyone into that shit will just go somewhere else, and the price of that is yet another erosion of privacy.
PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They could at least do on-device hash lookups and prevent sending. Has zero effect on privacy and does reduce CSAM.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yah, that would be a great solution in comparison, but it’s still privacy invasive. Not as bad, but it’s still not giving people due process.
Which, not everywhere in the world recognizes that principle as a right, I am aware. But I do consider due process a right, and scanning anything on anyone’s devices without a legally justifiable reason is a violation of that.
I’m not willing to kowtow to a moral panic and just ignore the erosion of privacy “because the children”. And it is a moral panic. As bad as it is, as much as I personally would enjoy five minutes alone with someone that’s making or using kiddie porn of any stripe, it simply isn’t such a common thing that stripping everyone of their privacy, in any way is acceptable.
They wanna figure out a way to target individuals suspected of that kind of crime, awesome. Untargeted, sweeping invasions simply are not acceptable, and I do not care what the purported reason of the week is; kiddie porn, terrorism, security, stopping drugs, I do not care. I have committed no crime, and refuse to give away the presumption of innocence for myself or anyone else.