We need to do something against this. The EU plans to apply a law for a chat control in the territory. The approval say that all the chats and the emails would be send to the government to do AI scanning to in fact “find the children abuses”, even when using apps with end-to-end encryption (the EU will ask the services to open their secrets keys… we know that Microsoft, Google and Facebook have already agreed to this. On the other hand Signal for example had said that they would leave the EU if this law will be applied). We need to counter this, because this restrict the privacy and the security of the citizens. Even if you’re not living in the EU, you should take a look because that could encourage others to do the same! Please take a look of the situation and make you your own idea of the case. Find out here the votes results for now, by countries and more… mepwatch.eu

Some others organizations criticized the approval, a open letter/petition was posted here : globalencryption.org

PS : I know that this was posted on the community a bit before (https://lemmy.world/post/16093632) but I think this is really important and the people should know it. That’s a really regrettable decision for the population. thx

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    7 months ago

    Major XMPP clients now have implemented OMEMO - from what I understand, it’s very similar.

    My issue with Signal, aside from centralization and phone numbers, is how it is annoying to use without a smartphone.

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      7 months ago

      Doesn’t need phone numbers anymore

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        7 months ago

        First - it does still require one for registration, just no longer requires it to be public. Second - this still has nothing to do with the fact that desktop doesn’t allow registration and tells you to register from a smartphone instead.