cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/12846267
After Sunday‘s European elections, the EU is planning to reintroduce indiscriminate communications data retention without suspicion and force manufacturers to allow law enforcement access to digital devices such as smartphones and cars.
Specifically, according to the 42-point surveillance plan, manufacturers are to be legally obliged to make digital devices such as smartphones, smart homes, IoT devices, and cars monitorable at all times (“access by design”). Messenger services that were previously securely encrypted are to be forced to allow for interception.
The secure encryption of metadata and subscriber data is to be prohibited. Where requested by the police, GPS location tracking should be activated by service providers (“tracking switch”).
The EU Commission has already contributed specific proposals to the surveillance plan, according to two presentations obtained by the Pirates.
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Are they trying to push tech savy people into full blown criminality? Way to go.
How can people, “experts” even, work on shit like this with a good conscience? Even if they earn millions, they are still undressing all of us including their own families!
I refuse to believe they don’t know, but why don’t they care?
Because they don’t use technology. Their crimes are done in person.
Voting ☠️ tomorrow!
I see we have another salilor on our ship! Welcome aboard fellow Pirate! Let’s sail the seven seas and the great Internet to a brighter future! 🏴☠️💜
This is 1984 dystopia level
Very worrying
As someone who sees these articles, who should I not vote for? Is there some ranking for ‘most asshole-ish politician’ regarding the EU? I know every politician has somewhat dirt on them but I’d love to know what to avoid since apparently some of those turds are worse than others.
It depends on the country you live in. You will have to research that. As a rule of thumb, it is conservative/ right wing parties pushing for heavier surveillance of citizens.
As it stands right now, the Eu parliament (which consists of people who we vote in to office), is the government body which opposes these measures. But there are only a few member countries left in the parliament which do that, so our votes are important!
it is conservative/ right wing parties pushing for heavier surveillance of citizens.
My experience is totally different, although of course I don’t know the situation in whatever country you’re from.
Arguably, the main reason for surveillance (being able to read your communication) is to be able to censor you (prevent you from posting/saying things somebody else doesn’t like) or even punish you for something you say.
And I don’t see how can anyone argue that it is not the left that wants to censor everything and punish people for things they say :)If somebody wants to actually try arguing it, please answer the following question (in parentheses I’ll leave the suggested answer 😉, but let me know if yours are different)
- Why is almost every free speech site is a right-wing site, and not a left-wing one? (because they are extremist, and we need to censor and jail them! but it is okay, because they are the bad ones and we are the good ones.)
- Is it okay to criticize alphabet people (and call them alphabet people ig 🙃), post statistics of violent crimes by race, and generally speak bad about minorities? (nooo, you can’t do that, we should protect minorities no matter what the reality is, you should be censored and jailed!)
- Is it okay to tell people what is actually happening in Ukraine and what atrocities Zelensky’s regime is committing? (nooo, you can’t do that, you’re a fascist and/or russian bot/propagandist, it’s all a lie even if you provide us with credible/primary sources, we should censor you as soon as possible for propaganda or misinformation or something and definitely jail you!)
Your views are at odds with reality.
I know you won’t but you should step back and reconsider the media you consume that has lead you to these misconceptions.
Your views are at odds with reality.
And surely you are able to point out what exactly am I wrong about? :)
If want more what patrick breyer doing, he is pirate party.
Von der leyen is cdu, some call her zensursula (censor-sula), her first name is ursula.
About UvdL - one can also google about her and Azerbaijan, her and Russia, her and defense ministry.
Censorship is consistent with her other undertakings, but is not morally the worst of them.
