Technology

Keep them informed, of course they care about your opinion, especially seeing how anyplace else in the world where such things were introduced there were successful revolutions and people doing that ended up in jail. Oops.

Agree

🇩🇪GER: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/beitraege/chatkontrolle/

🇫🇷 FRA: https://iloth.net/2023/05/traduction-du-dossier-chat-control-2-0-de-patrick-breyer/

🇸🇪 SWE: https://chatcontrol.se/

🇳🇱 NED: https://chatcontrole.nl/docs/chat-control-2-0/

Your local Pirate Party and organizations like Bits of Freedom can help out.

The annoying thing is that some states like Germany pretty much prohibit surveillance of this extend by constitution. It couldn‘t be made any harder for a legislation like this to pass and yet they keep trying.

Well we in the Swedish Pirate Party are strongly against this! We have been fighting since the beginning against Chat Control! Feel free to DM me and I can even try to find a Pirateparty near you or atleast a party who are aligned similarly!

but so far nothing happened

Things happens frighteningly fast these days. It's not a matter of being complacent; it's a matter of budding things in the nip. Which won't work. Then tirelessly fight back against it.

Unless you've been sleeping under a rock these last few… weeks. Not even months. Some legislation can go from 0 to 100 extremely quickly if left unchecked.

What activists? I need their names, for personal research reasons.

Hey at least Stasi only spied on people they suspected.

Their kind never leaves the chat, it's a professional habit

If you're a citizen of an EU country, you should contact your politicians to tell them not to, maybe they won't.

It only has to pass once, and they keep trying.

Rules are for the people, not governments

The EU decides what's GDPR. And it seems recently it decided to not be buggered by those old ideas that are privacy, freedom, etc.

Your OS doesn't, put the messaging apps that your friends/family/coworkers use do.

And no, you can't convince them to switch messager, I tried.

As long as owning a device that allow full E2E encryption without spyware isn't illegal.

It bears repeating a lot of time : the technology to circumvent these things exist, and will continue to exist. However, there's nothing preventing obtuse lawmakers from making it illegal to own. And then, it's just a matter of catching someone and finding some rooted android phone in his pocket.

So Canada?

(They do have a history of going a little overboard with the homicidal stuff. But they've come a long way in the last few decades.)

Authoritarianism, duh. It’s a global thing.

Signal has already stated that they will pull out of the UK if they go through with their version of this, I imagine they'll say the same for the EU.

Get a good VPN, exit it from a non-5 eyes country, and hope they don't start blocking by phone number alone.... and hopefully they'll drop the phone number requirement sooner than later.

Also, welcome to Signal!

you know this means they get the keys, right?

I like the comapirson i heared at Anne Roths(https://systemli.social/@anneroth) talk(German):

You would never say: I don't need free speech because I have nothing to say. Everyone profits from data privacy and free speech and some people are depending on their life on it.

Let us know when it's ready for Alpha testing. Most of us will gladly give it a shot and help iron it out.