Fourthly, scanning for known, thus old material does not help identify and rescue victims, or prevent child sexual abuse. It will actually make safeguarding victims more difficult by pushing criminals to secure, decentralised communication channels which are impossible to intercept even with a warrant.

This point is huge, and on its own explains why half baked compromises are worthless.

The criminals will use banned chat apps, while innocent people get their messages read.

Its really really great that in a time where fascists gain more and more influence in several EU states, we also make it possible to massively spy on citizens :)

“If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.” - Richelieu (disputed)

Time to become a proud criminal. When law becomes tyranny, resistance becomes moral.

Lol guess we can kiss post-quantum TLS goodbye.

This is going to have catastrophically negative effects for the internet in general. And, as others have said, actual bad actors will just keep using the most advanced encryption available anyways. This only makes the vast majority of internet users less secure and easier targets for exploitation.

So this is how liberty dies...

I can't see Signal operating in Europe if this is the case. Telegram has already handed over information, so they will likely adapt and continue doing their thing. Meta/WhatsApp will want to keep that money, so they will find a way to operate as well.

I suppose Signal could have a European server, but that might cut them off from the rest of the world.

Might end up using Briar or XMPP.

I haven't given the proposition more than a once-over, but I assume this will cover emails too?

I want cameras and microphones in every politicians house, in every room. These record 24/7 and will be live-streamed on twitch. Any politician against this proposal is obviously a child-abusing terrorist, or do they have something even worse to hide?

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- enters the chat

Typical Achsel Voss behavior... Fucking fascist.

Goodbye data security and privacy... I guess you were nice concepts whilst you lasted.

Are they proposing opening every letter that goes in the mail too? And checking every memory card that gets sent?

the proposed text would mandate the implementation of surveillance bugs

And they call it 2.0? I've never seen such a blatant example of version number inflation. It should be called 0.2a, as it's nowhere near ready for release and full of bugs.

Great. That would probably mean a ban for Telegram would also be needed, as they're known to not bow to local surveillance-laws.

I'm all for doing everything to find effing pedos, but I'll doubt it will help catch one. Who would be so dumb to do illegal things on the surface-web?

Germany suggests splitting up child sexual abuse material regulation

Germany has suggested splitting the file into two parts, namely “generally acceptable provisions”, which should remain in the compromise text, and “controversial provisions”, which should be removed. The removed parts should be included in a new draft regulation.

Controversial provisions could be “discussed without time pressure”, to come up with solutions that protect children and also respect data privacy.

How to contact your MEP.

Thanks for the link, but I'm still not sure who to contact. Apparently I'm supposed to know who is "my MEP", but I don't. How to?

The age of stenography has begun!