As part of its efforts, the bloc has repeatedly introduced its Chat Control legislation, aimed at weakening the encryption that protects messaging services and force providers to provide a client-side backdoor for law enforcement.

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    The title is missing a second part: “after China, the US, Russia, the UK, etc.”.

    I get that privacy is potentially in danger if chatcontrol passes (ie. it’s not right now) and that to raise awareness is worthwhile, but misrepresenting one of the best places privacy-wise as “one of the greatest threats” is just dishonest.

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      The EU is interesting because there is the GDPR that has good data privacy protection but then they keep bringing up chat control which completely undermines privacy

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        “They” being some proponents starting with Ylva Johansson, but it’s also true that they have never had a majority to actually make chat control happen. They keep trying, but “they” are not the EU as a whole.

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        Because they support limited privacy from corporations, but zero privacy from government. The neoliberals don’t consider that a double standard.

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      None of those countries are trying to dismantle encryption entirely so no, I disagree.

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      No, those countries are not enshrining in law the requirement for backdoors to serve your own government, for which you’ll be required to comply.