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Chat Control Twist: Commissioner Sides with Parliament over Governments
- latexr 11mo agoSubmission for the stream of the talk today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46145777 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46145777
- saubeidl 11mo agoShowing once again that it's the national governments that are the problem and the EU that is our safeguard, not the other way around as often espoused here.
- raxxorraxor 11mo agoNo, that isn't really the takeaway I would use
- lioeters 11mo ago> Governments must be honest: While some claim to oppose ‘Chat Control,’ they have agreed to a Council text that allows US tech giants to do exactly that — massively scan our private lives. > The Parliament, under Javier Zarzalejos, has charted a path compliant with fundamental rights: targeted pursuit of criminals instead of general suspicion against the entire population. > If governments do not budge, we face a future where anonymous whistleblowing falls silent and teenagers are locked out of digital life.
- raxxorraxor 11mo agoIt still is a foul compromise. The judiciary in my country puts out warrants like candy. My country isn't ready for such mechanisms, it needs to reinvent civilization first and get control over its own failing institutions.