The results are showing up… Now we have to hope for the law to be declined… Already discussed about the chat control law of the EU, here : https://lemmy.ml/post/16469106

    • @[email protected]
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      34 months ago

      But why can’t you just use software from GitHub or F-Droid or something that doesn’t have to obey these laws? Is it illegal?

      • @[email protected]
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        134 months ago

        good luck getting everyone you know to communicate with you with “software from GitHub or F-Droid or something”. I’m having a hard time making people try out Signal, which is freely available on the major app stores (and which, by the way, has declared that they’ll leave the EU market if one device scanning will be enforced on them).

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          84 months ago

          I think this would give me a reason to tell my contacts why I refuse from now on to use whatsapp for instance. I could say something like whatsapp now scans every single photo you send, therefore I won’t use it so contact me on some other place.

        • foremanguyOP
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          34 months ago

          Signal is great but lack some points, like the requirement of the mobile number or the centralisation of the servers

        • @[email protected]
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          24 months ago

          I wasn’t even talking about such cases. I was talking about people who need really secure and private communication in that particular comment

      • foremanguyOP
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        34 months ago

        In fact it would be illegal but you wouldn’t take risks by using them. But the authorities could make them shut down one by one

          • foremanguyOP
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            24 months ago

            That would be difficult for sure but in fact it would be illegal

        • @[email protected]
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          54 months ago

          Even if this is illegal - how would such usage be detected? Your device just makes a request to a random domain on a random VPS, and the traffic is TLS-encrypted - would usage of XMPP/Matrix/whatever be that distinct?

          • foremanguyOP
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            64 months ago

            I totally understand and this approval is absolutely ridiculous just because it’s almost impossible apply this… But even with almost 0 chance applying to every apps it’s better to kill this law as soon as possible

          • foremanguyOP
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            24 months ago

            In fact it would be “scanned” by AI for searching all the kinda sexual, abusive stuff… In fact to protect children

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                14 months ago

                That’s why it’s a scan, like done apple with their gallery. Scan signatures, AI recognition etc…

                • @[email protected]
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                  No, what I’ve interpret from the webpage is far more basic. Just matching images, almost like pixel-by-pixel. If you think about it, legally describing your interpretation (Apple’s gallery) is very challenging and is thus possibly infeasible.

                  As a result, my feeling is that the EU is going with a far inferior method that doesn’t have to send images to the server. Technically speaking (they might still require that).