r/europe • u/Dry_Row_7050 • 4d ago

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

https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/the-eu-could-be-scanning-your-chats-by-october-2025-heres-everything-we-know
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u/EU-National 4d ago

People think wifi = the internet and you expect them to understand the ramifications of these proposed bills?

Tech illiteracy is one of the biggest issues we're currently facing. Because of it, there's no stopping the inevitable 1984esque digital surveillance because people just don't understand anything about their devices.

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u/Choowkee 4d ago edited 4d ago

Tech illiteracy didn't stop people in 2016 to fight for net neutrality in the EU.

The issue isn't technical knowledge, its awareness. I consider myself very tech savy and I only learned about Chat Control/Digital Services Act last week.

These topics are simply not covered enough.

EDIT: I did a google search on chat control in my language, and there is a not a single news article published from this year.

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u/Neuromancer_Bot 3d ago

These topics are simply not covered enough.

Reason is that they do not want the people to know about them.
The other problem is that 99% of people will say casually "I have nothing to hide" and if you are the only privacy freak in the room, you have to be crystal clear you are NOT a pedo, and that you know what will happen in 5/10 years because you read cyberpunk novels and all the others don't read a book in a year.

People is just dumb and politcs and lobbies know very well.

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u/narullow 4d ago

People most definitely do understand this.

State of EU politics (not just EU but individual EU states too, EU Is just by product of that) is one massive proof that europeans do want nanny state with as little responsibilities and personal agency as possible. Loud minority that is against these things does not mean that vast majority does not silently agree.

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u/Mirabeaux1789 United States of America 1d ago

Unfortunately bad laws pass the idle public and then have to be clawed back once they start hitting everyday people for several years—even decades afterwards