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 HUNGARY PROPOSED MESSENGER PROVIDERS FOR TIGHT SURVEILLANCE

Following the pressure of privacy & human rights activists the Hungarian Presidency claimed to do "a compromise". In practice the upcoming #ChatControl regulation will require from messenger providers "to do their utmost to contribute to the development of reliable and accurate technologies to detect new CSAM and grooming."

It means more tight surveillance, including indiscriminate mass monitoring of private communications and the end of secure end-to-end encryption. https://emanuelkarlsten.se/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/240829-CRPII-4-september-st12319.en24.pdf

In response to this proposal, over 245 scientists from 31 countries evaluated #ChatControl draft as ‘ineffective, false positives, defeats end-to-end encryption, disproportionate, violates right to privacy, new vulnerabilities’. https://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~preneel/Open_letter_CSAR_aug24_still_unacceptable.pdf

 1️⃣ What you can do now: 

🔻Call your goverment and deputies to reject alltogether Chat Control. Find contacts here: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/who-is-who/organization/-/organization/COREPER/

🔻Support politicians like @echo_pbreyer who promote privacy! 

🔻Explain why it won’t help in bringing security for our society. Opposite, such approach would put the future of our freedoms is just one step closer to be compromised and abused by dictators. 

🔻Address your government before the next meeting on 2nd Oct.:
  
🔴SUPPORT Chat Control: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden

🟢AGAINST Chat Control: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovenia

🟡 UNDECIDED (we need to activate them the most!): Italy, Netherlands, Portugal

🎙Respost and call you friends to join the campaign today: If no privacy of communication, no protection for children, anyone in the EU and beyond! 

2️⃣Rember and explain: 

🔻No algorithm can reliably make a legal assessment. According to Meta, which is the source of the vast majority of reports, they currently only look for known CSAM in EU communications, and yet at least 50% NCMEC of reports made to German law enforcement agencies are not criminally relevant, according to the federal crime agency (BKA).

🔻EU Commissioner #Johansson admitted in late 2023 that 75% of NCMEC reports are not of a quality that the police can work with. 

3️⃣ Dictators love Western spy technology: the example of the Intellexa spy company proved: dictators all over the world love Western spy technology for transnational repression of opponents and destruction of the Western world, your and your family freedoms. Urge your government to stop this!  https://www.woz.ch/2439/predator-files/die-schweiz-als-drehscheibe/!NN0B9QYP1H7V https://image.nostr.build/caac90ec913f658d489da72e16a3c3b2c552a4251221bfac6b500a9a2c060202.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1624385b6ea10e0559b364fe7b428bd71f238d4818b489320e9499d6e0123c30.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e2150dc4587629f82f9cc2ac1434bf7f957d645d87458f3c243523a88bc43dcb.jpg  
 This has to be coming from above somehow, some organization that somehow blackmails the politicians and perhaps even the media directly. So many, including the people with fancy titles that you mention, who have already contacted the politicians and they are still at it.

I live in Sweden, and I think the Swedish mainstream media have mentioned it once - a short general overview with focus that it's "against child abuse material". No discussion of the implications on privacy, cybersecurity, risk of slippery slope, anything like that. I don't consume a huge amount of mainstream media, sure, but a reasonable coverage of this would be at about the same level as that of the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. Which is pretty much daily news on at least one of the two. 
 Yes, but then you need to ask/write to journalists as well as politicians what do they know about #ChatControl and what do they do to defend #freedomtech? 
 Has anyone done this yet? In that case, what was the reply, if any? 
 Chat control is coming "... to detect new CSAM and grooming." That means more surveillance, monitoring and possible the end of end-to-end encryption privacy.

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