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Re:Chat control: EU Commission presents mass surveillance pl... by vaylian on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @01:37PM (#31329910)
Afaik the legislation will force communication service providers (WhatsApp, MSN Messenger, ...) to scan any chat message for illegal material before it is encrypted and sent. The scanning happens against a known database of data fingerprints.
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Re:Chat control: EU Commission presents mass surveillance pl... by GekkePrutser on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @02:04PM (#31330292)
So what happens with self-hosted or decentralized services? Like matrix.
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Re:Chat control: EU Commission presents mass surveillance pl... by vaylian on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @02:25PM (#31330608)
Depends entirely on how the law itself will be phrased. Maybe there is an exception to services below a certain size. But I don't expect the politicians behind this initiative to have matrix on the radar or even understand decentralized chat protocols.
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