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mobile.twitter.com/AlecMuffett/st Aside: it'd be extraordinarily foolish for EU authorities to (e.g.) block DNS lookups for alecmuffett.com because of this document, but just in case such were to happen, it's also available on an unblockable onion site: rgmsmo56szaaighyjurp4ccuj63zkad.onion/alecm/tmp/eu-c

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Alec Muffett

@AlecMuffett

· May 10

Well, this is some interesting reading for the afternoon. alecmuffett.com/alecm/tmp/eu-c

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So, following this argument, in the EU: (1) speculative "freedom from" risk of abuse & degradation …is more important than… (2) concrete "freedom to" have privacy and confidentiality …even where all parties in (2) — including the victims from (1) — are impacted.

Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, Expanded Edition

Elsewhere I am currently working my way through

@jon_rauch

's audiobook "Kindly Inquisitors", and I feel this is closely aligned to his chapter regarding "speech as harm".

amazon.co.uk

Oh, this is a twist:

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Ross Anderson

@rossjanderson

· 23h

Commissioner Johannson repeatedly refused to meet civil society groups about this law of hers. And now it mandates a number of child-protection mechanisms that we know are ineffective. twitter.com/AlecMuffett/st…

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> [content] scanning is often the only possible way to detect [grooming] and…the technology used does not ‘understand’ the content of the communications but rather looks for known, pre-identified patterns that indicate potential grooming These people have not read

Not to mention elsewhere: HOW TO IDENTIFY PATTERNS OF BAD BEHAVIOUR WITHOUT BREAKING THE PRIVACY OF END-TO-END ENCRYPTED DATA. FROM WHATSAPP. IN 2017. FIVE YEARS AGO.

youtube.com

USENIX Enigma 2017 — How WhatsApp Reduced Spam while Launching...

Matt Jones, Software Engineer, WhatsAppEnd-to-end encryption, which protects message content so that only the sender and recipient can access it, is gaining ...

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Oh, I had missed this. This is just shoddy work, props to

@PrivacyMatters

for pointing it out:

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Privacy Matters

@PrivacyMatters

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I CANNOT believe that the @EU_Commission has used the term 'child pornography' and 'pornographic performance' in its definition of CSAM. Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the wee donkey!

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GitHub - alecmuffett/ready-made-twitter-searches: prefabricated twitter searches for civil society...

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> End-to-End Encryption: European Union Backdoors — EU initiatives to mandate encryption backdoors …see the latest Twitter discussion with a #ReadyMadeTwitterSearch at:

github.com

prefabricated twitter searches for civil society purposes - GitHub - alecmuffett/ready-made-twitter-searches: prefabricated twitter searches for civil society purposes

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I still reckon that this is the funniest and most ironic part of the entire

@EU_Commission

#CSAM document — and it's on the front page. I wonder if they would ever discuss it amongst themselves over a messenger app? Cited link is: ec.europa.eu/info/sites/def

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One key observation for EU citizens — and indeed for people everywhere — to take from the ongoing "abortion" debates in the USA, is that your Government cannot & should not be excluded from the "threats" against which privacy is a necessary defence.

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Riana Pfefferkorn

@Riana_Crypto

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I wrote about how the end of Roe will change the encryption debate. tl;dr: * encryption advocates: quit letting US LE exclude itself from the threat model * tech cos.: get your shit together * lawmakers: if you're pro-choice, you can't be anti-encryption. cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2022/05/e

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Social problems [like child abuse, grooming, even racism & hate speech] are not solvable via technical means; this is what #RanumsLaw has taught us for literal decades. It's not like "cleaning up pollution". It's about addressing *people*.

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Alec Muffett

@AlecMuffett

· May 10

The EU mindset—something that leaks out in the #DSA which (e.g.) @1Br0wn & @RDBinns are so fond of—is that enabling the world to be more open & connected is a societal & political pollution problem, and that "the polluter should pay"; ergo: bill GAFAM for enabling communications:

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Slightly off-topic, in case you missed it, there is even more Illiberal and misconceived internet messaging legislation under discussion in Belgium:

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Bits of Freedom

@bitsoffreedom

· May 10

Last week, the Belgian government launched a proposal that would ban Signal. What's going on? Read all about it here: bitsoffreedom.nl/2022/05/10/bel

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Good Morning! In case you missed it, today is the day that the European Union declares war upon end-to-end #encryption, and demands access to every persons private messages on any platform in the name of protecting children:

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Alec Muffett

@AlecMuffett

· May 10

Well, this is some interesting reading for the afternoon. alecmuffett.com/alecm/tmp/eu-c

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HEADSUP: about 40 (?) minutes until the official announcement. If you want to track sentiment about European Union initiatives to stop #privacy and mandate #backdoors to "fix" #CSAM, you can see the latest discussion with a #ReadyMadeTwitterSearch at: github.com/alecmuffett/re

EU will Chat-Kontrolle: Messenger sollen auf CSAM und Grooming prüfen müssen

Article:

ifun.de

Ein Entwurf der Europäischen Kommission zur „Festlegung von Vorschriften zur Verhütung und Bekämpfung des sexuellen Missbrauchs von Kindern“ ist noch vor seiner offiziellen Vorstellung im Netz...

Leaked: EU plans to mandate scanning of encrypted messages for CSAM

Article:

imore.com

A new report says that the EU is set to unveil new legislation that will force the scanning of communications to stop the spread of Child Sexual Abuse Material, including apparent plans to open up...

Chatkontrolle-Gesetz: Das steckt hinter den umstrittenen Plänen der EU

Article:

berliner-zeitung.de

Die EU will die Verbreitung von Kinderpornografie im Internet durch ein Gesetz erschweren. Kritiker sprechen von „Massenüberwachung“ und protestieren in Berlin.

So: the official draft has been published at ec.europa.eu/commission/pre along with all the expected framing material; a basic check with diffchecker.com/pdf-diff/ shows that the leaked draft is very accurate, apparently missing only a couple of sets of costings plus some renumbering.

Curiously (see diff in previous tweet) Article 83 in the final copy, appears to be missing? Or perhaps it has been abstracted elsewhere?

Here is some creative spin for the proposal:

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EU Home Affairs

@EUHomeAffairs

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1 million #childsexualabuse reports in the EU, in 2020 alone

Today, @EU_Commission proposes new

legislation to protect children with

strong safeguards

obligations on companies

coordinated authority actions Find out more

ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/E #EUvsChildSexualAbuse

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— tell us more about these "strong safeguards", other than that you will demand them?

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EDRi

@edri

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Today is a worrying day for all of us using online private communications: our personal chats & messages are at risk of being spied on at all times, as the @EU_Commission just proposed a Regulation laying down rules to detect & remove #CSAM online

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The Cambridge University security research group chime it:

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Ross Anderson

@rossjanderson

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The European Commission proposed a new child-protection law today. However, it mandates the wrong things, and appears likely to harm children instead: lightbluetouchpaper.org/2022/05/11/eur

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@family_martyn

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