Chat Control isn’t dead, Denmark has a new proposal − here’s all we know

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• SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  As per the text shared by the Danish Presidency, the October 30 compromise proposes removing all provisions on detection obligations included in the bill (Articles 7 to 11). These are the obligations to monitor all users’ chat activities.

  Voluntary CSAM scanning would then be made permanent and included in Article 4 as a possible mitigation measure.

  Yet, the Danish Presidency still leaves a door open for mandatory scanning by planning to introduce a “review clause.”

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  This, Director of Government Affairs and Advocacy at the Internet Society, Callum Voge, told TechRadar, allows for the file to be revisited in the future if new detection technologies are developed as alternatives to client-side scanning.

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  According to Breyer, though, this may instead be a way to “introduce mandatory Chat Control through the backdoor,” rather than a real fix.

  Another amendment could also require providers of high-risk services to develop relevant technologies to mitigate the risk of child sexual abuse identified in their services (Article 5).

  This indicates, Voge explains, the Danish Presidency’s high-level intention. Yet, without providing the details. “To say definitively, we would need to see the concrete compromise text.”

  What’s certain, both Breyer and Voge also believe voluntary scanning may carry some security and privacy risks.

  Breyer said to TechRadar: “Even where voluntarily implemented by communications service providers such as currently Meta, Microsoft, or Google, chat control is still totally untargeted and results in indiscriminate mass surveillance of all private messages on these services.”

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• BD89@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “Yet, the Danish Presidency still leaves a door open for mandatory scanning by planning to introduce a “review clause.””

  Taking it down brick by brick one step at a time.

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• chickenf622@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I thought voluntary scanning was already on the books (this is what I gathered from the article)? What makes this version different?

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  • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I for one will be going back to written letters for all further correspondence.

    Wonder if my postman is reading my letters though as well?

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    • RalfWausE@blackneon.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Weeelll… back in the “good old days” of the GDR there was even machinery for unnoticeable opening and resealing envelopes to spy on the population…

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    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That‘s funny because Denmark ended physical letter mail this year too. They are locked in when it comes to building a dystopian surveillance state.

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• frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How did Denmark end up being the bad guy in this? Volunteering for the role seems out of character, but who knows.

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  • biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You have on the typical rose-tinted glasses many wear when thinking about Denmark and Scandinavia in general.

    Greetings,

    An Italian who lived in Scandinavia 13 years and is trying hard to escape before Denmark hits a recession.

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• seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ah shit, here we go again

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