Hungary's push for chat control failed as Dutch secret service opposes client-side scanning! | Tuta
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For the umpteenth time, the EU Council can't agree on Chat Control - a great victory for privacy.

Another month, another attempt: Even though Hungary had to cancel the latest EU Council’s vote on the Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Regulation in June 2024 because there was no majority among member states, it tried again this Wednesday - without success. The tipping point was that the Dutch secret service clearly issued their opinion on the enormous threat to everybody’s security should end-to-end encryption be weakened. Encryption is paramount for the digital resilience in Europe.

  • MaggiWuerzeEnglish
    8·
    4 hours ago

    Not to mention that Chinese intelligence was just revealed to use exactly this kind of government backdoor to spy on people

  • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    7 hours ago

    A backdoor is a backdoor. No amount of spin will change that fact. Backdoors, especially known ones, are an open invitation to get hacked.

  • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    9 hours ago

    Client-side scanning - if required by law - would ask tech companies to scan communications for illegal content on the client before the encryption takes place and send suspicious content to the authorities. The Hungarian Presidency claims that this can coexist with end-to-end encryption, but this is fundamentally untrue.

    JFC.