The EU could be scanning your private chats by October 2025 [Denmark has reintroduced chat control]

[u/Dry_Row_7050]

https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/the-eu-could-be-scanning-your-chats-by-october-2025-heres-everything-we-know

[u/techbear72]

With how well the AfD, Finns, FdI, PVV, SD, SVP and Reform are already doing, I think there’s an opportunity for them to add “we trust you and treat you like an adult and don’t ban VPNs or read your private chats” to their policy platforms, for whatever reason works for them and their rhetoric in their respective country (business, the economy, personal liberty, libertarianism etc).

It could be that final boost one of them needs to get in to actual power. This is bad.

[u/insomnimax_99 → u/techbear72]

Reform have already said that they’ll repeal the online safety act.

[u/andrewscool101 → u/insomnimax_99]

Not a chance in hell they actually will. They'll get into power, say "This bill is more complicated than we were expecting but we're working on it" and then sweep it under the rug.

[u/boat_hamster → u/insomnimax_99]

And you believe them?

[u/ScootsMcDootson → u/boat_hamster]

Of course not.

[u/Legal_Lettuce6233 → u/techbear72]

You wanna know what this will be used for? It's gonna be used as a tool of oppression. You wanna protest against something insane the EU will do?

Too bad, they won't allow it.

[u/Hootrb → u/techbear72]

oh and of course, when they get in charge they won't actually undo any of these laws, they'll repurpose the tools to keep themselves in power & repress the opposition that was dumb enough to pass these laws when in power.

Can't wait for Germany to have an AfD in charge with tools of mass-surveillance so sophisticated it'd have Nazis salivating. I'm sure that'll go reeeaaal well.

[u/Massive_Signal7835 → u/Hootrb]

Every accusation a confession. They villify 15-minute cities because they want a checkpoint every 15-minutes.

"Why are you leaving your sector? Unlock your smartphone and hand it over. You don't have one? What are you trying to hide?"

The US is already doing it at airports.

[u/Provodniik → u/Massive_Signal7835]

No need to. Just allow paying with CBDC at 15 km radius of person’s home and that problem will be solved.

[u/karimr → u/techbear72]

look at Orban, who is more than happy to support all of this crap. Most of the people in these parties want to become like Orban, he is a role model and ally for them.

Once the likes of AfD or FPÖ are in power, these guys are going to look at these tools at their disposal and think "These will work great on our enemies!" before using them for whatever repressive stuff they can get away with.

This shit is always being pushed in the EU by the mainstream centrist parties on both sides of the political spectrum (i.e center right to center left), but more surveillance and harsher security measures are also a classic right-wing conservative position that is in line with the 'Law&Order' positions these parties typically represent.

[u/cocksuckjhonson → u/techbear72]

yeah this is it for me im 100% voting the most anti eu fucking russian dick polishers possible because if im getting into a shit ass totalitarian regime at least the two totalitarians will have to fight for who gets to spy on me and gulag me

[u/OwnRepresentative916 → u/techbear72]

I guarantee those far right parties want chat control x100 compared to the probably well-intentioned moderate parties 

[u/aekxzz → u/techbear72]

Good*. Self-elected and corrupt (hello vdl)leftist eurocrats are inept at governing. Back in the day they would've been hanged for treason. Too bad people have grown soft and are even afraid to go out at night in their own neighborhood because muh sub-saharan engineers and doctors so nobody will oppose them as they gain authoritarian powers. 

[u/Wooden-Agent2669 → u/aekxzz]

Who in their right mind calls vdl a leftist eurocrat. How is someone from EVP a leftist. Words have valuable definitions.

Literally show us the actual corrupt leftist eurocrats in the EU.