If you search for the word “encrypt” in this document, you’ll see that they are against Facebook end-to-end encrypting messenger: https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/default/files/what-w...
I don’t think this is an overreaction.
I don’t think this is an overreaction.
> One of the specific initiatives under the EU Internet Forum in 2020 is the creation of a technical expert process to map and assess possible solutions which could allow companies to detect and report child sexual abuse in end-to-end encrypted electronic communications, in full respect of fundamental rights and without creating new vulnerabilities criminals could exploit. Technical experts from academia, industry, public authorities and civil society organisations will examine possible solutions focused on the device, the server and the encryption protocol that could ensure the privacy and security of electronic communications and the protection of children from sexual abuse and sexual exploitation.
I read this as "Okay, fine, we can't ban end-to-end encryption and we cannot backdoor it. What can we do?" If that is what they mean, it seems a reasonable enough question to ask.
Looks like they're going to find ways to read our messages before they are encrypted and sent. Why would anyone continue to use a communications application that's known to do this?
Network effect. Most people are not using Whatsapp because it is E2EE, they are using it because all their friends are.
Also this would likely be quickly commandeered for copyrighted work (honestly pretty surprised it hasn't happened already).
It worries me that anyone thinks it would be a good idea to have "fake news" and "inflammatory content" blocked at the device level. Obviously cloud providers can do whatever they want (though I doubt it catches any more than the lowest hanging fruit, encrypting then uploading would be uncatchable), but the idea that my device will have a list of disapproved content, and I'll have to appeal to the government to be allowed to view it in case of false positives? The day that becomes a reality freedom will truly be dead.
Are you kidding? Almost nobody will care about that. This isn't even a new threat. It's common practice already.
The general public won't care until we're halfway down a slippery slope, and then people will just switch to whatever platform is perceived as more secure/popular at that particular moment in time.
So total opposite of how you read it.
Well, the answer is: nothing. Let's take an analogy:
> Industry and government need to work together to try and see what can be done about me talking to my wife without breaking privacy.
If I want to speak to my wife in private, that's between me and my wife only. If industry and/or government want to have a say in that, they're going to need to control or monitor anything I say to my wife. The very act of desiring to control requires subverting privacy.
Of course, there are fruitful discussions to be had about the extent of privacy itself, the extent of private communication, and the extent of control that might be admissible. But to pretend that there is a perfect solution that doesn't affect privacy is either a foolish or deliberately malicious position to take.
While the EU is at it, they should do one for free energy.
Get just the right panel of experts together, and hopefully they can handwave all those troublesome laws of physics away as well.
> Last year, Facebook announced plans to implement end-to-end encryption by default in its instant messaging service. In the absence of accompanying measures, it is estimated that this could reduce the number of total reports of child sexual abuse in the EU (and globally) by more than half and as much as two-thirds, since the detection tools as currently used do not work on end-to-end encrypted communications.
Seems more like stating a fact.
Also as the other comments said, even in the one you link they're discussing the true issues that exist and what to do in that context.
They seem to just explain the problem it causes and calls for finding new approaches since current ones are made ineffective.
So there is some level of man in the middle already.