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RootWyrm 🇺🇦:progress:

If you are a customer of EU hosting companies or, like me, looking to start a business in the EU, you need to provide your feedback immediately.

This proposal not only eradicates any privacy you think you have as a customer, it makes it impossible for your provider to secure basic things like payment systems, and adds at the minimum, millions in costs for any business to even attempt to comply.

It's even worse than the US.

ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-r

European Commission - Have your sayEuropean Commission - Have your sayEuropean Commission - Have your say
#ProtectEU#DigitalRights#EU
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khaleesi (Elina Eickstädt)

#Chatkontrolle Eine Ratspräsidentschaft mehr geschafft?! Nun ja Dänemark wird eine harte Nuss bis dahin haben wir nun erstmal ein wenig Verschnaufpause.
Bzw. Zeit uns mit #ProtectEU zu beschäftigen.

edri.org/our-work/technical-ex
chaos.social/@andre_meister/11

European Digital Rights (EDRi)Technical experts call on Commissioner Virkkunen for a seat on the table of the European Commission’s Technology Roadmap on encryption - European Digital Rights (EDRi)EDRi, in a group of 39 organisations and 43 experts, published an open letter today to call for a scientific evidence-based approach to encryption.
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The New Oil

Joint Letter on the European Internal Security Strategy (#ProtectEU)

globalencryption.org/2025/05/j

Global Encryption Coalition · Joint Letter on the European Internal Security Strategy (ProtectEU) – Global Encryption CoalitionOn 26 May 2025, 89 civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts, including Global Encryption Coalition members, published a joint letter to the European Commission, calling on them to address concerns around the impact that the European Internal Security Strategy (Protect EU) would have on end-to-end encryption.  The Internal Security Strategy’s focus on encryption will harm […]
#privacy#politics#Europe
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CDT Europe

📢 CDT Europe, as part of the steering committee of the Global Encryption Coalition, joined 88 other civil society organisations, companies, and cybersecurity experts in a letter to the European Commission, raising serious concerns about the future of #encryption in Europe.

🔒 Strong encryption is not a barrier to security, it is a fundamental pillar of it. We need to defend it, not undermine it.

cdt.org/insights/joint-letter-

Center for Democracy and TechnologyJoint Letter on Encryption and the European Internal Security Strategy (ProtectEU)On 26 May 2025, CDT Europe, as part of the steering committee of the Global Encryption Coalition, alongside 88 civil society organisations, companies, and cybersecurity experts published a joint letter to the European Commission. The letter raises urgent concerns about the potential impact of the European Internal Security Strategy (Protect EU) on the future of […]
#E2EE#ProtectEU
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CCC

Strong encryption, including E2EE, is key to cybersecurity. Encryption circumvention tools create new risks that threaten security globalencryption.org/2025/05/j #ProtectEU

Global Encryption Coalition · Joint Letter on the European Internal Security Strategy (ProtectEU) – Global Encryption CoalitionOn 26 May 2025, 89 civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts, including Global Encryption Coalition members, published a joint letter to the European Commission, calling on them to address concerns around the impact that the European Internal Security Strategy (Protect EU) would have on end-to-end encryption.  The Internal Security Strategy’s focus on encryption will harm […]
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knoppix

The European Commission's "ProtectEU" strategy aims to address internal security threats but threatens digital rights by promoting #surveillance measures like #encryption backdoors and increased data retention.

It also seeks to strengthen agencies like Europol and Frontex, despite their abusive histories.

Thanks to #EDRi for their ongoing efforts to protect Europeans’ digital rights.

@edri

edri.org/our-work/protecteu-se

European Digital Rights (EDRi)‘ProtectEU’ security strategy - European Digital Rights (EDRi)The European Commission presented an internal security strategy that would undermine digital rights and even increase security threats.
#ProtectEU#EU#DigitalRights
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🔗 David Sommerseth

Since the #EU #politicians seems not to really grasp the consequences of #ProtectEU (the new name of the #chatcontrol proposals) ... I will come with an extended proposal.

Hopefully the politicians can see the risks better.

As an extension to ProtectEU, we need to grant law enforcement agencies in Europe access to the GPS logs of all mobile phones and cars. In addition, all home owners will need to provide a separate set of keys to their homes to the law enforcement agencies in their residence country.

This will allow law agencies across all of Europe to investigate more freely and help fighting criminal activities and preparations for potential criminal actions much more efficiently. This will help us protect the citizens of EU more efficiently.

You think this sounds like a good idea? Because this is what the ProtectEU/ChatControl tries to achieve by injecting backdoors into encryption or enforcing client-side scanning of data.

Because these proposals (mine extension included) will not protect you if ...

  • ... the current government changes and starts to persecute inhabitants. Like Russia has changed. Like the track USA is on nowadays; Just look at what happens in regards abortion and women scared of tracking menstrual cycles in apps. Or how they are scraping social media for potentially compromising information about immigrants - so they have reason for deportation.
  • ... criminals gets hold of access keys law enforcement possesses. Can happen through unfaithful/disloyal people within law enforcement agencies, phishing attacks, data breaches in law enforcement infrastructure
  • ... espionage by foreign states succeeds retrieving access to law enforcement infrastructure

If you are a politician who have a vote here - and you still think this is a good idea .... I'm sorry, but then you're too naïve and unfit sitting with this power.

Giving someone the possibility to possess information about anyone else is the ultimate honeypot which will be abused.

Like it's been said so many times before: «The road to hell is paved with good intentions».

PRIVACY CANNOT BE COMPROMISED REGARDLESS OF THE END GOAL

techspot.com/news/107408-europ

TechSpot · Europe proposes backdoors in encrypted platforms under new security strategyBy Alfonso Maruccia
#privacy#policy#politics
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knoppix

The EU's #ProtectEU strategy raises serious concerns for digital rights, continuing punitive #surveillance trends.

It threatens #privacy with a #Technology Roadmap promoting #encryption backdoors for #law enforcement, and plans to reassess #data retention rules could lead to mass #surveillance and chill #anonymous speech.

Digital rights advocates must push back against these harmful #policies.

edri.org/our-work/protecteu-se

European Digital Rights (EDRi)‘ProtectEU’ security strategy - European Digital Rights (EDRi)The European Commission presented an internal security strategy that would undermine digital rights and even increase security threats.
#TechNews#Tech#EU
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