On Monday a new version of the globally unprecedented EU bill aimed at searching all private messages and chats for suspicious content (so-called chat control or child sexual abuse regulation) was circulated and leaked by POLITICO soon after. According to the latest proposal providers would be free whether or not to use ‘artificial intelligence’ to classify unknown images and text chats as ‘suspicious’. However they would be obliged to search all chats for known illegal content and report them, even at the cost of breaking secure end-to-end messenger encryption. The EU governments are to position themselves on the proposal by 23 September, and the EU interior ministers are to endorse it on 10 October. Messenger providers Signal and Threema have already announced that they will never agree to incorporate such surveillance routines into their apps and would rather shut down operations in the EU.

    • Im_old@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I should have clarified, it’s for close family only. If ChatControl comes to pass I guess some more people will get onboarded on it.

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        2 months ago

        Are people allowed to communicate with you on your Matrix server from other Matrix servers?

        Not in a technical sense, but in a legal sense.