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> What is coming back: US tech companies are once again allowed to scan private messages without a warrant or prior suspicion. This affects direct messages on p
by sneak 3mo ago
> What is coming back: US tech companies are once again allowed to scan private messages without a warrant or prior suspicion. This affects direct messages on platforms like Instagram, Discord, Snapchat, Skype, and Xbox, as well as emails via Google’s Gmail and Apple’s iCloud.
They are already allowed to do this, and already are doing this. When you provide data to the service provider in a non-e2ee fashion, it's their data as much as it is yours. They can scan it, data mine it, analyze it, whatever.
- omnimus 3mo agoThis is the whole point though. They are allowed to do this because of the original chat control from 2021 which was temporary and expired in march. Without chat control it is very debatable what companies can legally thanks to eprivacy directive.
- IanCal 3mo agoThey aren’t allowed to do whatever they want with your data, there’s strict restrictions on requiring consent for things you want to do with user data.
- sneak 3mo agoYes, and you consent when you enable iCloud.
- flumpcakes 3mo agoI assume those 400-page EULAs blast away any 'strict restrictions'.
- IanCal 3mo agoNo, GDPR spells out in much more detail what consent means - and burying things in a EULA doesn’t work.