cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/6469594

How to contact your MEP.

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I like how patrick breyer makes a warning with all the logical points. Especially this: “Fourthly, scanning for known, thus old material does not help identify and rescue victims, or prevent child sexual abuse. It will actually make safeguarding victims more difficult by pushing criminals to secure, decentralised communication channels which are impossible to intercept even with a warrant.”

I am not sure what the people over there think, but the criminals will not just continue using these services.

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Would a way to legally bypass this be an app that can “encrypt” your text before your send it. The government would be able to see all of your messages but it would be scrambled in a way that they couldn’t read it.

Something where both people would install the same text scrambling app and generate the same key to scramble all text (would need to do in person). They would then type all their text into the app and it would scramble it. The user would then copy The Scrambled text and send it over any messaging platform they want. The recipient would need to copy the text and put it back into the scrambling app to descramble it.

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This is how PGP works and is pretty widely used. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy

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If they can scan it, they can edit it.

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Correct. Though signatures can help.

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just in time.

connect the dots.

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Good. Nothing to hide here.

Edit: Terrorists be downvoting

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If supporting privacy is terrorism, I’m proud to be a terrorist.

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Yikes. One thing is supporting privacy, and another to call oneself a proud terrorist. Imagine calling yourself a proud 9/11 plane crasher.

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Shaming tactics don’t work on intelligent individuals. Try harder.

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