All hands on deck! This is the biggest threat to Stop Killing Games yet!
The EU #KidsAct could end #StopKillingGames by collapsing the EU gaming market and making private and community servers illegal!:
https://t.co/bVgInkrrOx
"The best thing you can do is spread the word...The people who write this crap do not like it when the public at large knows what they're trying to do to you" - @accursedfarms
Don't just take our word for it, here's the EU Kids Act to see for yourself. Ross also has more links in the description of his video:
https://t.co/i5CRzvPRKY
https://t.co/scEM6JFjjh
We did it: The EU Parliament continues to OPPOSE #ChatControl 2.0! 🥳
Thanks everyone for writing to representatives. 🫶
The next trilogue is scheduled for November, we must make sure that end-to-end encryption and private communication remains to be protected!
#privacy
@LyudaKozlovska@haitambenslimen I worded it unclearly. I meant in comparison to the older version of 2.0, like they used mandatory but now "voluntary".
But yes, it is very bad.
@haitambenslimen 1.0 was supposed to end, but was extended until 2028.
2.0 had a small change in the wording, but effectly is still the same.
https://t.co/g3zbkmCXU6
STOP CHAT CONTROL 2.0. - What you should know:
Tomorrow, 29 September, behind closed doors at the Council, the most draconian version of Chat Control 2.0 goes on the table. It is no longer only an intermediary reading all your private messages and cloud storage. It is a licence to search them for months, without suspicion against any individual.
The leaked Presidency note to delegations (11956/26, 10 September) proposes "authorisation of search plans for a period of time rather than on a case-by-case basis" for private chats and emails.
In plain terms: your messages, contacts, photos and cloud will be scanned under a state-issued licence for months, with no suspicion against you.
The same note admits that under this regime "a high volume of reports generated do not lead to any operational outcome." The Council's Legal Service already warned this is general and indiscriminate surveillance, illegal under EU law. The @Europarl_EN mandate says the opposite: judicial authorisation, targeted to specific persons, no scanning licences.
Tomorrow the pressure is on Parliament to fold. You remember the tricks used to push Chat Control 1.0 through and how @EPPGroup with @RobertaMetsola helped to push for it.
So fasten your seat belt for what is coming tomorrow, and call or write to your MEP and your government now to reject Chat Control 2.0. as a whole!
Remind them what this does to the privacy of every one of us.
Under a search plan, every chat, photo or contact the scanner flags is stored by the provider and sent to a new EU agency, the EU Centre, which keeps it and passes it to police. Any state authority can then demand it, with a deadline and a fine for delay, and nobody has to check who is really behind the request, in case it is hacked or weaponised.
That is exactly what happened at Revolut, and what keeps happening through abusive requests from authoritarian states, as we have reported for 13 years.
In the Revolut case the hackers got access to a real state mailbox. Their requests came from an authentic certified email (PEC) account of an Italian Prefecture on the Interior Ministry's domain, with Postal Police protocol numbers, as European Investigation Orders in the name of the Milan prosecutor, for about five months.
About 680 customers lost passports, selfies, home addresses, IBANs and full transaction histories. The files are being sold; hundreds of victims now fear kidnapping. No remedies exist as of now to protect against such attacks.
Let's stop it before it is too late. Please repost.
@haitambenslimen They were two version of chat control, one in mini version that has been in place (1.0), but it was optional and didn't affect encryption. It was voted again for a few months ago, now the other (2.0) that is worse, but wasn't passed, it may today...
🚨🇪🇺 The #ChatControl trilogue starts on Tuesday & the EU Council is trying to pressure Parliament into giving up its opposition. We must stop them once again! 💪🏼
Ahead of tomorrow’s final CSAR trilogue, leaked Council documents suggest a proposed compromise around so-called "search plans". These would allow authorities ask providers to scan broad groups of users or entire services for extended periods.
This isn't targeted policing, it is mass surveillance!
It's crucial that the EU Parliament remains strong and keeps up their opposition.
Because no matter the framing, the truth remains the same: There's no backdoor for the good guys only!
We at Tuta will continue to fight for your right to #privacy. Make your voice heard as well, today is the day!
➡️ https://t.co/FUHuFlfW3m
@SilverSane_ Well I'm more active on bluesky, but not like many people are using it. I'm also on here temporarily, came back mostly to talk about chat control, not sure if I stay longer, I may consider it.
Not that great, beside finishing degree, still same issues and somehow even worse...
@SilverSane_ They definitely already do the scanning, I mean how else they would train AIs... This is just legalizing it plus some radicals taking advantage of this.
@SilverSane_ Yeah it's just constant enshittification in everything, eu making stupid laws so big techs can have their way, at the cost of normal people. Bleak times await
@SilverSane_ Yeah this is for 1.0, which was in place before (expired in april) so this is just return to what it was a couple months ago.
2.0 is more dangerous, but doesn't mean 1.0 is good, pretty much anything sponsored by big tech companies can't be good in laws...
As long as they get