Re:Firefox on the Brink?
by rdm_blackhole on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @10:50AM
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That would be a no from me. Considering the recent headlines from the EU wanting to scan every private message on the phones of it's citizens in order to "protect the children".
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Re:Firefox on the Brink?
by vlabakje90 on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @11:42AM
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FIY, that has been rejected: https://fortune.com/europe/2023/10/26/eu-chat-control-csam-e...
For now yes. I'm sure it will be back on the agenda in some form or other before we know it.
Re:Firefox on the Brink?
by rdm_blackhole on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @01:31PM
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For now, but it's not over.
If not this time then the next. Just the fact that the commission was allowed to propose such a blatant privacy invading law is enough for me to know that privacy is not a something that the EU is serious about.
Private corporations do the same without you knowing, without any pretence and without even illusion of accountability.
Non-profit is better than gov but private is way worse than even gov.
Re:Firefox on the Brink?
by rdm_blackhole on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @02:58AM
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I don't think this is what being argued here. We know that privacy is an after thought of most companies even in the EU.
But to think that the EU would be the guarantor of everyone's privacy on the web, is completely ridiculous.
Also your argument is not valid. When Google detects that you break their rules they ban your account. When the government has this kind power, then they have the power to do worse things to you, like imprisonment, fines, putting you on a blacklist and much more...
Those two things are not comparable.