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It was mostly pushed by people (Ylva Johansson) linked to American organisations (Thorn) who are in the business of selling chat monitoring software.
by eigenket 2y ago
It was mostly pushed by people (Ylva Johansson) linked to American organisations (Thorn) who are in the business of selling chat monitoring software.
- toyg 2y agoAnd their customers are...?
- eigenket 2y agoCurrently random companies [1], if the shitty legislation gets passed then every EU government. [1] https://www.thorn.org/solutions/for-platforms/ https://www.thorn.org/solutions/for-platforms/ Their website lists oracle, slack, ancestry.com and others
- toyg 2y agoSecurity services typically don't publicize what they use, for obvious reasons. Unless you can point out links between the Hungarian government (who announced they will re-table the directive in a few months) and such companies, I'd say Occam stays with the security services.
- eigenket 2y agoI'm pretty sure Orban and his scumbags just use pegasus to spy on anyone they like, I don't think this adds anything for them. The chat scanning stuff isn't a realistic proposal either for its intended purpose or for spying, it's just grifting.