EU-voorzitter #Denemarken heeft de omstreden wet op het scannen van kinderen met seksueel misbruik (#CSAM) weer bovenaan de agenda gezet. Over het zogenaamde Chat Control-voorstel zou al op 14 oktober 2025 gestemd kunnen worden.
https://ibestuur.nl/artikel/chat-control-staat-weer-op-de-europese-agenda/
Alexander Isavnin v prezentaci vyvrací, že by blokovací legislativa a celý ten cenzurní moloch něco změnily. Naopak. Vyšší míra sebevražd dětí, více zločinů spojených s drogami, více škodlivého sexuálního obsahu zaměřeného na děti.
https://blog.nic.cz/2025/08/28/glosa-k-chat-control-verze-2025/
For the people following this little thread (or are just curious). I also got a reply from @voltnederland. Another neat enough default reply, referring to their stance they took a year ago found here: https://volteuropa.org/news/chat-control-wont-protect-children
The important thing: they confirmed they too are (still) opposing it.
Tor under scrutiny: "Privacy at a cost: the dark web’s main browser helps pedophile networks flourish, experts say" - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/25/tor-network-child-sexual-abuse
#tor #privacy #csam
Best quote I have seen for a while: " Trump went from release the files, to release the philes. "
( It was a comment on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYXXXXqC-Ic )
#UK age checks on #VPN is perhaps the most ludicrous suggestion ever.
Unless the next step for #OnlineSafetyAct always was exactly this. To make it seem like a logical consequence - optics.
VPNs are one tool among many to strengthen #privacy online, and removing #anonymity from their use deals a severe blow to their purpose.
This was never about #CSAM or any content online in #UK (or anywhere - #ChatControl is different but alike).
It was and is always about control of citizens.
#ChatControl2 threatens private messaging across the EU.
As a #Whisperfish maintainer & privacy researcher, I’m alarmed: the new “Danish” proposal forces mass scanning & client-side #backdoors into #encrypted apps — while exempting governments & military.
As @signalapp says, this would “break encryption as we know it” — and we won’t comply.
Time’s critical: govs lock positions by 12 Sept; vote is 14 Oct.
@Matthijs85 Exactly! It will make us unsafe.
It is not just a privacy thing. Security will be broken and so privacy will be broken as well. And it is not just your chats on your phone we are talking about. It is communication, files with photos, laptop, etc. (so, hosting). Our fundamental rights are on the line, while it won't help battle the making and spreading of CSAM.
Will be speaking at @Surf Network & Cloud Event @tkkrlab about this end of September.
#CSAM #ChatControl #Security #Privacy
Chat Control will end secure communication, making EVERYONE unsafe! #ChatControl
#EU #privacy #surveillance #CSAM
Many countries that said NO to Chat Control in 2024 are now undecided, while the 2025 plan is more extreme
Help Stop ChatControl! https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#WhatYouCanDo
Contact your representatives: http://fightchatcontrol.eu/
First 3 lessons so far:
・Dutch MEPs are on vacation till September.
・There is no default template for vacation emails for European Parliament members. Every mail is different, including text, font, spacing and text colour.
・Based on the auto-reply subject line, I can see if their language setting is set to Dutch or English.
I'll keep you updated if I get something more interesting in my mailbox 
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By the way, we’ve never managed to get any hashes or urls from the so-called non-profit organisations that claim to share CSAM material hashes or links for detection. We’ve come to assume we’ll never receive any, so supporting actual detection was out of reach for us.
So we decided to build it ourselves. We now provide a public onion lookup service where you can look up Tor onion addresses to check whether they’re linked to CSAM for filtering and detection.
Lookup example (non CSAM): https://onion.ail-project.org/?lookup=ef42schauidg4vpuvodxxvd5lz7w2romgrym5fwv3bo4okg5lvcx6xyd.onion
If the content is related to CSAM, the following tag is used dark-web:topic="child-sexual-abuse-material"
API https://onion.ail-project.org/apiman/redoc/
This functionality (starting from version 6.1) is also included in @ail_project to limit crawling unsafe content. https://www.ail-project.org/blog/2025/02/06/AIL-v6.1.released/
I've send out some emails. Even if my country officially opposes, it only does by 3 members. Let's push the rest to also publicly oppose it, and let them bring it up to those around them.
I used my private email, so I can receive and read any replies send back. I don't expect much, but still curious.
You can generate and send a message to your MEPs with:
https://fightchatcontrol.eu
More info at:
https://chatcontrol.eu
The EU (still) wants to scan
your private messages and photos
it’s not too late to act:
Reach out to your Representatives.
#chatcontrol #privacy #CSAM https://fightchatcontrol.eu/#contact-tool
More on Facebook, Meta and Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg started his path to become one of the wealthiest people on Earth, with influence over literal billions of people, by creating an online place for men to rate (and deride) women.
He has never given the first fuck about anyone who isn't Mark Zuckerberg.
And he never will.
#Facebook #Meta #MarkZuckerberg #CSAM #GenAI
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/mark-zuckerberg-never-more-dangerous-20819500.php
Y’all! The Executive Director of the #Israel Cyber Directorate, which is a government agency that operates under the office of Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu, Tom #Alexandrovich, was apprehended and faced felony charges of “Luring a Child with Computer for Sex Act,” according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announcement yesterday.
Naturally, a child sex predator from Israel was immediately released and returned to Israel where he cannot be extradited, and the Israeli government is denying he was arrested. He was in town for the Black Hat conference, where he posted pics. His social media and LinkedIn presence has been scrubbed as of now, but the internet is forever, so screenshots are a thing.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/nevada-arrest-israeli-official
Neil Young is done with facebook, after it's been made public that Meta first created a chatbot that flirted with children, and later created a second chatbot that rationalized and justified the first chatbot's sexualized interaztions with children.
#Facebook #Meta #CSAM #NeilYoung #GenAI
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-young-quits-facebook-1235408277/
#chatcontrol #privacy #europe #freedom #csam
The clown show in the UK with regards to the #OnlineSafetyAct and the classification of #Wikipedia gives us a glimpse of our future…
Fight Chat Control. Protect privacy and tell your MEPs that shoddy and invasive privacy breaches in the name of safety will most likely fail to adress both privacy and safety. We're getting really good data on the failure of a comparable law in the UK right now.
I emailed italian politicians about the EU's "ChatControl" proposal. Here I include email addresses and templates (in Italian) for my fellow Italians who want to help.
The war on crypto never ends. The war on privacy, civil rights, security and freedom of speech never ends.
This time we are dangerously close to lose. The "Child Sexual Abuse" (CSA) EU regulation proposal, more aptly nicknamed "ChatControl", will be voted AGAIN this October, and many countries who opposed it last year are now undecided. The proposal at its roots aims at allowing authorities to break end-to-end encryption for the usual reason: "because of the children". As a father of two, I am disgusted by this recurring, cheap rhetoric.
What you can do: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#WhatYouCanDo
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