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submitted 5 months ago by Unskilled5117@feddit.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

After Sunday‘s European elections, the EU is planning to reintroduce indiscriminate communications data retention without suspicion and force manufacturers to allow law enforcement access to digital devices such as smartphones and cars.

Specifically, according to the 42-point surveillance plan, manufacturers are to be legally obliged to make digital devices such as smartphones, smart homes, IoT devices, and cars monitorable at all times (“access by design”). Messenger services that were previously securely encrypted are to be forced to allow for interception.

The secure encryption of metadata and subscriber data is to be prohibited. Where requested by the police, GPS location tracking should be activated by service providers (“tracking switch”).

The EU Commission has already contributed specific proposals to the surveillance plan, according to two presentations obtained by the Pirates.

Make sure to vote in the upcoming elections!

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[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 35 points 5 months ago

I can't believe that EU can become much worse at privacy than America.

[-] mihor@lemmy.ml -2 points 5 months ago

It always has been... * astronaut pointing a gun "

[-] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago

Yeah, time to vote for Pirates.

[-] PiratPartiet@feddit.nu 7 points 5 months ago

The Swedish Pirates welcome you aboard the European Pirate Ship! 🏴‍☠️💜🇸🇪

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

Great job backdooring the entire EU, EU oligarchs. This is so recklessly dangerous to national, regional, and global security that efforts to implement something so authoritarian and anti-democratic should be considered both treason and a crime against humanity; worthy of the Hague and life in prison.

This is the kind of shit Putin or Xi would try to pass if they corrupted the EU's institutions.

[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 7 points 5 months ago

Agree 100%! Also: Please be the change you want to see and publish a list of these traitors to humanity in your comments.

We need to name and shame, only then will people remember the name when in the voting booth.

We can make these people radioactive by pulling at their thread until they are openly unveiled for their ties to whatever nefarious organizations they belong to.

[-] NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 months ago

This simply won't work and the implications and risks are too great to allow such a blasphemy. If a backdoor is built in every device, how do you guarantee the security ? This means anyone with enough skills and knowledge can abuse these types of backdoors.

This would set a very dangerous and dystopian precedent.

[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 4 points 5 months ago

Thats only the „what if“. You always have to entertain the thought that your country gets taken over by non democratic forces. That then? They dont need any „what ifs“ they are legally allowed to spy on us and enabled by our own tech then. Who had genocide on steroids for 2025?

[-] sintrenton@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago

Don't assume that the European commissioners and their staffs know what they are doing or understand these matters. The depth of their collected knowledge could easily be documented in a single Powerpoint. And with not too many slides. And Ylva Johansson is well known for being both ignorant and utterly manipulated by lobbyists.

[-] Titou@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 months ago

Guess we all gonna self-encrypt all of our communications

[-] adamnejm@programming.dev 22 points 5 months ago

2029: EU proposes to criminalize the use of mathematics.

[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 10 points 5 months ago

Education has always been the enemy of autocracy. Depriving people of it is a perfectly effective way to make them gullable and easily swayable by rhetoric.

Of course those in power (0.1%) dont want anyone to come up with alternatives to their supreme reign. Thats why, every push for less education, making it less affordable and paywalling knowledge should be condemned as a thinly veiled attempt at securing their infinite authority. Their kids get the education they need, ours wont.

I always envision us watering our fields with mountain dew in that situation.

[-] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They attack us again and again, so stopping this does not go far enough. We must create laws to destroy their privacy.

[-] makeasnek@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago

Let your MEP know their voters care about privacy. These efforts have been defeated before, it just requires vigilance. Your letter can be as simple as "I care about privacy". That's all you have to write.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home

[-] makeasnek@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Let your MEP know their voters care about privacy. These efforts have been defeated before, it just requires vigilance. Your letter can be as simple as "I care about privacy". That's all you have to write.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home

[-] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

I was thinking about travelling to europe in the fall but looks like i'll pass now

[-] anytimesoon@feddit.uk 18 points 5 months ago

This is just a proposal. It'll take years to pass into a law/directive (if it ever does). I'd say now is probably a decent time to visit, in case it does go forward

[-] dotslashme@infosec.pub 2 points 5 months ago

Sounds like a stasi dream world

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