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Pedition: Against the adoption of mass surveillance of messengers, e-mail and chats in the EU.

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Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 18:05:28 +0100
Subject: Pedition: Against the adoption of mass surveillance of messengers,
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 by: Anonymous Remailer - Thu, 12 May 2022 17:05 UTC

The EU Commission plans to present a bill on 11 May 2022 that would
oblige providers of mail, chat and messenger services to use technical
means to scan all messages of their users for criminal content.
Currently, this project, which deeply interferes with the privacy of
all citizens, is justified by the fight against child pornography.

The argument that criminals will no longer use these very channels that
are to be monitored in the future and will easily seek and find other
communication channels and as a result the entire blameless,
non-criminal EU population will be mass-monitored does not seem to be
of interest here.

Despite numerous counter-arguments, the government wants to introduce
this measure by hook or by crook, because after the revelations of
Edward Snowden in 2013, an increasing sensitivity of citizens led to
more and more encryption of internet connections and messages, and
secret services, which were used to collecting and evaluating
unencrypted data, could no longer do so to a desirable extent.

Encryption itself is not supposedly banned, but it is circumvented by
first checking messages and then encrypting and sending them. This
means that messages can no longer be described as end-to-end encrypted,
since a third component is involved in addition to the sender and the
recipient. In October 2021, even world-renowned luminaries spoke out
about the risks of this so-called client-side scanning.

Against the backdrop of the invasion of Ukraine, the proposed law takes
on yet another, extremely unpalatable aspect. Nevertheless, the project
was not abandoned. No sooner had the refugee movements from Ukraine to
the EU begun than it became known that countless refugees were
installing messengers such as Threema and Signal, which are considered
particularly secure. Never before has it been clear how important
secure, encrypted, unmonitored communication can be. The security of
(also) the messengers of Ukrainian refugees is now to be significantly
weakened as soon as possible!

At the time of writing, at least 39 civil society organisations have
announced their opposition to this measure and this petition is
intended to enable the citizens concerned to do so.

Everyone has something to hide. That's why you wear clothes, you have
curtains and shutters, you lock your front door, you use passwords for
online banking, for example, and you want messages you send to be read
only by the person for whom they are intended.

The Commission's plan is comparable to writing a letter that is checked
by a supervisory authority before it is put into an envelope and sent
away. The project represents the end of digital secrecy of
correspondence.

If this bill is implemented in this way, the door will remain wide open
for misuse. No user of a smartphone, which is often expensive and
purchased privately, will know what exactly the software (artificial
intelligence) scans, with which databases which private photos or
videos are compared, where files are sent to for examination, who gets
to see the files, where and how long they are stored, at what point
criminal charges may be filed without justification. The danger of
hacker attacks on servers that store information from smartphones is
also clearly present and should not be underestimated!

Furthermore, it can be taken as certain that the surveillance potential
of this measure, once introduced, will be further expanded over time!

Crimes must be prosecuted and punished! But this requires targeted
investigations and access and not mass surveillance of the private
messages of all citizens!

All bodies and persons involved in legislation are therefore called
upon to stop this project. The EU likes to call itself a western
community of values with democracy, freedom and human rights. The
introduction of measures known from autocratic states, on the other
hand, makes this description absurd!

https://www.change.org/p/against-the-adoption-of-mass-surveillance-of-messengers-e-mail-and-chats-in-the-eu

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