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If you follow the link for "Chat Control" in the first sentence, and then scroll down for a while, you will find a subsection titled "What Is Chat Control". Pro
by warkdarrior 1y ago
If you follow the link for "Chat Control" in the first sentence, and then scroll down for a while, you will find a subsection titled "What Is Chat Control". Probably they assume that if you do not know what it is, you should not care about it.
From that section:
> "In 2021, the EU approved a derogation to the ePrivacy Directive to allow communication service providers to scan all exchanged messages to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Although this first derogation was not mandatory, some policymakers kept pushing with new propositions.
> A year later, a new regulation (CSAR) was proposed by the European Commissioner for Home Affairs to make scanning messages for CSAM mandatory for all EU countries, and also allow them to break end-to-end encryption. In 2023, the UK passed a similar legislation called the Online Safety Act. These types of messaging mass scanning regulations have been called by critics Chat Control."
- dkdcio 1y agoright and if you read that subsection, it does not tell you what Chat Control is. which I find odd. it just goes on about how bad it is (after making an analogy earlier about police entering my home every morning). am I missing the explanation in the article of what Chat Control actually is? the article also explicitly says it affects non-Europeans. I’m interested! I just can’t figure out what it is
- warkdarrior 1y agoThe other page I was referring to does have some more detail: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/03/the-future-of-privacy/#what-is-chat-control https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/03/the-future...
- dwedge 1y agoPeople who know about it are generally already annoyed. The trouble is most people don't know what it is, and those are the people who should be targeted