Nejc Bajželj

Tech geek since Y2K | #Bitcoin since 2012 | #Crypto hustler | Entrepreneur | IT & Cybersecurity pro | Driving innovation in the digital world

[Nejc Bajželj @NBajzelj]

@keet_io Is it open source?

[Save Europe Act @SaveEuropeAct]

Control our borders, not our chats.

The EU has descended into anarchotyranny: it leaves our cities unsafe while trying to read every private message we send.

Our campaign fights for both secure borders and freedom of speech.

Sign now and join us in Brussels on July 15th.

[Patrick Breyer #JoinMastodon @echo_pbreyer]

🇩🇪Morgen 12:00 Uhr: Finale Abstimmung über Wiedereinsetzung der #Chatkontrolle 1.0
Einfache Mehrheit reicht für eine Ablehnung nicht mehr aus.
📩 Neue Mail-Vorlage nutzen: https://t.co/Axa6QXDTYA
📞 Noch besser: Direkt anrufen
📰 Infos: https://t.co/8LOfJnyq7b

[TonyCe ₿ ∞/21M @ToniCepon]

🚨⚠️ KATASTROFA! ⚠️🚨

🗳️ 331 poslancev Evropskega parlamenta je podprlo urgentni postopek za Chat Control (C10-0178/2026), 304 so glasovali proti.

👁️ Pod pretvezo »zaščite otrok« se želi pospešiti predlog, za katerega kritiki opozarjajo, da odpira vrata množičnemu skeniranju zasebnih sporočil in ogroža zasebnost državljanov. 🔒

❌ Zasebnost ni privilegij.
🛡️ Zasebnost je temeljna pravica.

🇸🇮 Kako so glasovali naši evropski poslanci? Zanimivo bi bilo vedeti.
📢 Delite. Zahtevajte odgvore.

🔗 https://t.co/A2zZG9oJtx

#ChatControl #StopChatControl #Zasebnost #DigitalnePravice #EU

[Patrick Breyer #JoinMastodon @echo_pbreyer]

#ChatControl 1.0 and 2.0 Explained: There is not one proposed “Chat Control” law — there are two, and they are moving through the EU institutions in parallel. This page untangles the two.
https://t.co/afiaVlKSq1

[Mullvad.net @mullvadnet]

On Thursday, the European Parliament votes on Chat Control 1 (the voluntary scanning, not the mandatory scanning, called Chat Control 2). Again.

The Parliament has already voted against Chat Control 1. Two times. But the Council of Ministers and the Parliament President refuse to accept it.

Now, the Council has demanded an urgent procedure. This is a procedure that is meant to be used for new legislative proposals, not proposals that the Parliament has already rejected. An urgent procedure requires an absolute majority to be rejected (361 out of the Parliament's 720 members). This will be difficult to reach, since those who abstain from voting are counted as a yes-vote in an urgent procedure. By scheduling the vote during the summer, they are making it even harder to reach those 361 no-votes. This is downright dirty tactic by the Council and the President of the European Parliament.

The President of the European Parliament has sided with the Council against her own chamber. For context, this is the EP President, Roberta Metsola:
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[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇬🇧 Not to alarm anyone, but the UK wants to scan every photo, video, and message on your phone before it's encrypted.

Tech CEOs who refuse to comply face up to 5 years in prison.

They're calling it a safety measure. It isn't. Pre-encryption scanning means governments can see everything before you've even sent it, and they can expand what gets flagged whenever they want.

The track record here is brutal. Europe's age verification app was hacked in under 2 minutes. Over 70,000 IDs and selfies were exposed in a separate breach.

These are the people who want access to every device in the country.

Once the infrastructure exists, no government in history has ever chosen to use less of it.

Source: CSOOnline / Writer: Jamie

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

BREAKING: The UK is drafting a law to scan every photo, video and message on every phone in the country.

Tech CEOs who refuse to implement this could face up to 5 years in prison.

The proposal would force companies to build device level scanners that inspect content before encryption.

That means:

• Every image scanned
• Every message inspected
• Every video analyzed

All directly on your phone.

Governments and companies pushing these safety” systems already have a terrible track record protecting user data.

Last month, Europe’s new age verification app, promoted as a way to "keep children safe," was hacked in under 2 minutes.

In another case, over 70,000 IDs and selfies linked to online verification systems were exposed in a major breach.

Now the UK wants even deeper access directly inside your device.

Once governments force surveillance tools into every phone, they can expand what gets monitored at any time.

[Mullvad.net @mullvadnet]

The UK government spyware demand means that the government decides exactly what should be censored on every mobile device. They say they will start with nude pictures (if you don’t identify yourself as an adult). But it could at any time be expanded to anything the government disapproves of. Today, 30 people are arrested every day in the United Kingdom for writing something online that the government classifies as "grossly offensive". It is obvious that they will use this tool to restrict free speech.

Currently, there appears to be no requirement to report findings outside the device. However, with both legal and technological decision-making power taken away from individuals and transferred to the government, that is only a pen stroke away.

This means that the government could also use this system for total mass surveillance.

And they can do so in secret.

The government recently, in secret, tried to pressure Apple (which is now agreeing to client-side scanning) to build backdoors into its end-to-end encrypted cloud service. They can do this under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, also known as the "Snoopers' Charter" – a law that makes it illegal for tech companies to disclose secret demands from the government.

[Rare | ♻️🇬🇧 @RareAxies]

@signalapp 🎯

[Signal @signalapp]

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

https://t.co/VdWe9uhi8p

[Nejc Bajželj @NBajzelj]

@JMacarolV

[Nejc Bajželj @NBajzelj]

@JMacarolV Kdo pa to še gleda?

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

Yesterday a quasi-judicial body in Italy fined @Cloudflare $17 million for failing to go along with their scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. It required us to not just remove customers, but also censor our 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver meaning it risked blacking out any site on the Internet. And it required us not just to censor the content in Italy but globally. In other words, Italy insists a shadowy, European media cabal should be able to dictate what is and is not allowed online.

That, of course, is DISGUSTING and even before yesterday’s fine we had multiple legal challenges pending against the underlying scheme. We, of course, will now fight the unjust fine. Not just because it’s wrong for us but because it is wrong for democratic values.

In addition, we are considering the following actions: 1) discontinuing the millions of dollars in pro bono cyber security services we are providing the upcoming Milano-Cortina Olympics; 2) discontinuing Cloudflare’s Free cyber security services for any Italy-based users; 3) removing all servers from Italian cities; and 4) terminating all plans to build an Italian Cloudflare office or make any investments in the country.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. While there are things I would handle differently than the current U.S. administration, I appreciate @JDVance taking a leadership role in recognizing this type of regulation is a fundamental unfair trade issue that also threatens democratic values. And in this case @ElonMusk is right: #FreeSpeech is critical and under attack from an out-of-touch cabal of very disturbed European policy makers.

I will be in DC first thing next week to discuss this with U.S. administration officials and I’ll be meeting with the IOC in Lausanne shortly after to outline the risk to the Olympic Games if @Cloudflare withdraws our cyber security protection.

In the meantime, we remain happy to discuss this with Italian government officials who, so far, have been unwilling to engage beyond issuing fines. We believe Italy, like all countries, has a right to regulate the content on networks inside its borders. But they must do so following the Rule of Law and principles of Due Process. And Italy certainly has no right to regulate what is and is not allowed on the Internet in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Brazil, India or anywhere outside its borders.

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT FIGHT AND WE WILL WIN!!!

[Bravo @OpenSourceMind1]

@EdwardJDavey

[James Lavish @jameslavish]

Translated: "You will soon need approval for every single transaction you attempt. If we decide we don't want you to buy that steak or take that trip or fill that car with gas (all in the name of climate control, of course) then we will simply deny that transaction. And if you speak out against us, we may just seize your money altogether."

[Nejc Bajželj @NBajzelj]

@teslaownersSV Stop bs, all of them collect your data. As long as they are formal entities they have to obliged local and international law. Like it or not. Only decentralized platform can "escape" eavesdropping if done well.

[Nejc Bajželj @NBajzelj]

@elonmusk If one big actor can stop or cause essential services, that service is not resilient to crisis of any kind. We truly need decentralized opensource solution on p2p basis.

[Nejc Bajželj @NBajzelj]

@andyyen As long service is centralized you cannot have any sovereignty. We need decentralized opensource solution.

[Global Government Affairs @GlobalAffairs]

Germany Must Safeguard Against Mass Surveillance Proposal
The Danish Presidency is pushing for client-side scanning provisions in the proposed EU CSAM regulation, set for an EU Council vote on October 14. This would force platforms to scan encrypted private messages, breaking end-to-end encryption and putting privacy and national security on the line. In fact, Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has historically opposed any "weakening of encryption standards," viewing it as a direct threat to consumer protection and state security. Germany must continue to lead the opposition to avert a surveillance "free-for-all."