Under this proposed law, your private conversations, images, and messages could be examined without you agreeing to it, and they would stop being anonymous — instead being linked to who you are. The stated scope is child abuse material only, which supposedly means that even discussions about crime or terrorism would not be caught. But after the system exists, a single software update is all that would be needed for it to search for whatever the government disapproves of, or anything that fails to generate profit.
That includes peptides. If this passes, then within a few years, getting peptides through an ordinary chat app — the kind plenty of us rely on, like whatsapp or telegram — would probably become impossible without difficult, elaborate technical workarounds. The reason is that the law covers scanning done on the client side, before a message is even transmitted, meaning the device performs the scan rather than the app. That makes it apply across every messaging app. Forums of this kind are explicitly covered as well.
Example: The UK’s CCTV Networks (1990s) (disclosure: used ai here)
After London’s "Ring of Steel" was installed in 1993 for counter-terrorism purposes, the UK’s CCTV network grew within 1 to 4 years to the point of monitoring minor offenses.
On Monday, 29 June, the EU trilogue negotiations over the Chat Control 2.0 proposal ended without a final agreement or a concluded decision. The meeting therefore closed without the file being settled, and rather than immediate adoption or rejection of the law, more negotiations were anticipated.
A vote is now likely to be put on the schedule for July.
Link to a useful site with helpful ways to combat it: https://fightchatcontrol.eu
That includes peptides. If this passes, then within a few years, getting peptides through an ordinary chat app — the kind plenty of us rely on, like whatsapp or telegram — would probably become impossible without difficult, elaborate technical workarounds. The reason is that the law covers scanning done on the client side, before a message is even transmitted, meaning the device performs the scan rather than the app. That makes it apply across every messaging app. Forums of this kind are explicitly covered as well.
Example: The UK’s CCTV Networks (1990s) (disclosure: used ai here)
After London’s "Ring of Steel" was installed in 1993 for counter-terrorism purposes, the UK’s CCTV network grew within 1 to 4 years to the point of monitoring minor offenses.
- Under the banner of counter-terrorism (aimed specifically at the IRA threat), cameras were rolled out heavily throughout British cities.
- After the physical camera infrastructure had been funded and installed on every street corner, the purpose changed. These days, the network issues fines for littering and minor traffic violations, and is used to watch public assemblies.
On Monday, 29 June, the EU trilogue negotiations over the Chat Control 2.0 proposal ended without a final agreement or a concluded decision. The meeting therefore closed without the file being settled, and rather than immediate adoption or rejection of the law, more negotiations were anticipated.
A vote is now likely to be put on the schedule for July.
Link to a useful site with helpful ways to combat it: https://fightchatcontrol.eu
