By making a minor concession EU governments hope to find a majority next week to approve the controversial „chat control“ bill. According to the proposed child sexual abuse regulation (CSAR), providers of messengers, e-mail and chat services would be forced to automatically search all private messag

This would probably fit in better in the technology community and I’m pretty sure it has been shared already, so sorry for the duplicate, especially since it was already on the [email protected] and and [email protected] communities.

I found it interesting because just a few months ago The Linux Experiment made a video that I shared and, while that video was talking about laws in France that I believed at the time would lead to eventually banning encrypted apps it now appears that the possibility of that is now looming over us…moreso after what happened in Arras.

Edit (in French) https://www.numerama.com/tech/1533652-attaque-a-arras-darmanin-vise-les-messageries-et-leur-chiffrement.html

Yes, the attack in Arras is being used as a reason to consider banning encrypted chat apps like Signal and WhatsApp.

    • willhig@beehaw.org
      9·
      1 year ago

      Proton is a Swiss entity, so while they may have to change how they work where a law like this is in effect, they could continue to offer the same e2e encryption for Swiss and other markets.

    • jarfil@beehaw.org
      3·
      1 year ago

      Obligatory warning: Protonmail offers zero protection against orders issued to Protonmail to spy on any target.

      They serve you the JavaScript used for encryption, you have no way of checking whether it’s the same they serve everyone else, or whether your version has a backdoor.

      • Xavier@lemmy.ca
        2·
        1 year ago

        Exactly! I always wondered about that particular issue.

        Although, if one encrypt themself their email through GPG or other means before sending it, it’s almost a non issue excepting metadata (sender, receiving email address, timestamp, etc.).