"Yet, the Danish Presidency still leaves a door open for mandatory scanning by planning to introduce a "review clause.""
Taking it down brick by brick one step at a time.
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As per the text shared by the Danish Presidency, the October 30 compromise proposes removing all provisions on detection obligations included in the bill (Articles 7 to 11). These are the obligations to monitor all users' chat activities.
Voluntary CSAM scanning would then be made permanent and included in Article 4 as a possible mitigation measure.
Yet, the Danish Presidency still leaves a door open for mandatory scanning by planning to introduce a "review clause."
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This, Director of Government Affairs and Advocacy at the Internet Society, Callum Voge, told TechRadar, allows for the file to be revisited in the future if new detection technologies are developed as alternatives to client-side scanning.
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According to Breyer, though, this may instead be a way to "introduce mandatory Chat Control through the backdoor," rather than a real fix.
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What's certain, both Breyer and Voge also believe voluntary scanning may carry some security and privacy risks.
Breyer said to TechRadar: "Even where voluntarily implemented by communications service providers such as currently Meta, Microsoft, or Google, chat control is still totally untargeted and results in indiscriminate mass surveillance of all private messages on these services."
I thought voluntary scanning was already on the books (this is what I gathered from the article)? What makes this version different?
I for one will be going back to written letters for all further correspondence.
Wonder if my postman is reading my letters though as well?
That‘s funny because Denmark ended physical letter mail this year too. They are locked in when it comes to building a dystopian surveillance state.
That's not true
Weeelll... back in the "good old days" of the GDR there was even machinery for unnoticeable opening and resealing envelopes to spy on the population...