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Chat Control 2.0: EU governments set to approve the end of private messaging and secure encryption(www.patrick-breyer.de)

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2Xtreme21@lemmy.world
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Thanks for the explanation. Do you know how they’re planning to implement this client side scanning? Take an iPhone for example— where Apple has already ditched their plans to do the same device-wide. Is it planned for WhatsApp, Signal etc. to be updated to force perpetual scanning of the iPhone’s photo album? Because that can be turned off quite easily at the OS level.

The only way I could see them doing it is by scanning any image that is selectively chosen to be sent before the actual message itself is sent—i.e. after it’s selected but before the send button is pressed. Otherwise it’s breaking the E2E encryption.

Is that the plan?

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DigitalNeighbor@lemmy.world
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Client-Side-Scanning is going to be implemented by the messaging app vendor. This means that it’s limited by OS or Browser sandboxing . Therefore it’s definitely limited to what the messaging app has access to. However, I’m not sure what the actual scope would be, meaning if all accessible images are going to be scanned or only the one being transmitted to someone.

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EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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What stops you from using a free software client that verifiably doesn’t do so? The mainstream messengers were not safe already anyway.

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