An investigation uncovers a web of influence in the powerful coalition aligned behind the European Commission’s proposal to scan for child sexual abuse material online, a proposal leading experts say puts rights at risk and will introduce new vulnerabilities by undermining encryption.
  • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachtsEnglish
    20·
    9 months ago

    Typical government move. Have a blatantly obvious questionable agenda to make spying on citizens easier, but tie it to something like children or “freedom”. Makes it easy to go “don’t you care about the children?!” This approach is so lazy it’s both insulting and nauseating.

    • oroboros@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      61·
      9 months ago

      I wonder how many children will be saved. Surely they’ve calculated this, given the high cost of freedom of information/speech being severely restricted.

      • Johanno@feddit.deEnglish
        81·
        9 months ago

        Probably none. Currently police has not enough men to even work through current data. Of course more data will fix this problem

        • HidingCat@kbin.social
          2·
          9 months ago

          Tangentially related to this, but this is something that should be talk about with legislation more often: Will the new law be enforceable? And at what cost?