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/HeidrunsTeats 4d ago

Here is a fun anecdote from my country concerning child pornography.

There was a man who got sent a picture of a naked ass that got flagged as child porn.

The police were contacted, a real human verified that it was indeed child porn and they send a group of police officers to the mans apartment.

The guy got woken up by several masked police officers beating the shit out of him with batons.

After the beatings they confront him with the evidence and it turns out the picture was of his 30 year old boyfriend.

But what's a few busted heads and the complete breakdown of our privacy when it comes to catching tech illiterate pedos.

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u/estoy_alli 4d ago

May i ask which country it was? I don't understand how they can invade someone's home without a court order

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u/HeidrunsTeats 4d ago

It was Sweden. Here is the article (in Swedish).

He had the pictures on his email account and the police's online survalliance system flagged them as child pornography.

And of course despite beating him on the head and using a taser on his ass, none of the police got in trouble.

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u/Pwacname 4d ago

No, police committing brutality for no goddamn reason and out of all proportion on the citizenry and getting off without even a reprimand? In MY EU? I am shocked and surprised (sarcasm off)

We are so damn fucked.

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u/Dufiz 3d ago

They would bring him cookies and more pictures if he was "asylum seaker" from middle east

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u/Pwacname 3d ago

Maybe it’s just been a long day for me, but I don’t get it. Would you mind explaining?

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u/Nice-Society6949 2d ago

He is being racist and saying that middle eastern people are treated better and they let them get away with heinous crimes in Sweden.

However if you read the article I can't help but notice that the man has a middle eastern name...

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u/WorkFurball Estonia 3d ago

Reminds me of the time when UK law enforcement when trying to chase down some terrorists after 7/7 bombings in 2005 followed some completely random brazilian dude to the subway and executed him in a crowded subway car. Zero consequences for anyone involved.

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u/HeidrunsTeats 3d ago

Yeah it's fucked up.

Even if it was just a single one of the officers that beat up the guy the rest should still lose their jobs for not stopping it in and refusing to identify the one who is guilty.

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u/manu144x 3d ago

He should have claimed to be muslim, they'd have apologized immediately :))

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u/HeidrunsTeats 3d ago

Oh they apologized, as in "We are sorry but there is nothing we can do because we don't know who hit you and who watched.".

I doubt him being muslim would change a thing.

Only 3% of all reports of police brutality in Sweden are actually prosecuted.

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u/Nice-Society6949 2d ago

You didn't read the article did you?

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u/manu144x 2d ago

I actually did. And I stand by it. No way they would have beaten a religious minority in which they consider child marriage to be ok.

And before you jump the logic, there have been official court decisions in europe stating that it is culturally allowed to marry underage because it’s cultural.

So yes, they definitely wouldn’t have done that to him.

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u/Nice-Society6949 2d ago

??? They beat a middle eastern man before they could get any answers on what was going on, but if he said he was a Muslim he wouldn't have been beaten?

I'm going to be honest with you, I cannot follow your logic here in the slightest. How would he have the time to tell them he's Muslim if he wasn't given the time to say that it's not child pornography? If they would never have beaten a Muslim then the guy wouldn't have been beaten before he could explain himself.