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Trojan horse labeled with "Protect Children" while "Mass Surveillance" sits inside and the "EU Member States" welcome it through the gate.

2025-10-14 09:14:45

Tuta

Tutanota@mastodon.social

Today is the day Mr. Hummelgaard wanted to push through a vote on Chat Control in the EU Council. But he failed! 🎉

However, Chat Control will be back, so let's look at what this law means for everyone, not just here in Europe:

#ChatControl is nothing but a Trojan Horse for citizens and businesses in Europe. Why?

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2025-10-14 09:15:07

Tuta

Tutanota@mastodon.social

Once built, such a system isn't just able to scan for harmful content, it could very well be used or abused to look for anything interesting:

🔓 Your credit card details

🔓 Your sexual orientation

🔓 Your businesses' customer lists

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2025-10-14 11:07:54

Kierkegaanks regretfully

Kierkegaanks@beige.party

@Tutanota let’s up the ante and campaign for the removal of hummelgaard. He’s not qualified for his position anyway, and got it through cronyism

2025-10-14 12:12:31

Miron

hmiron@fosstodon.org

@Tutanota hey Tuta. I appreciate the work you’re doing fighting for our privacy on social media.
In return I’ll fight to adopt your email services within our company.

Let’s see where this takes us 😆

2025-10-14 12:12:59

TrimTab 🇺🇦

TrimTab@mastodon.social

@Tutanota
Palantir is almost certainly behind this evil crap at some level....

2025-10-14 14:29:10

Alexander Goeres 𒀯

jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Tuta you have to be precise with this: it did not fail! to avoid failure the vote was postponed because somehow surprisingly germany showed some resistance. i don't expect it to stay that way.

the eu commission's president Ursula von der Leyen, a member of the cdu, the actual ruling party in germany, was notorious for using the pretext of fighting child abuse to install internet censorship in germany (dns blocking list aso). thus her nickname in germany: Zensursula, from Zensur (censorship) and Ursula ...

a postponed vote can be added quite quickly back on the agenda and fighting the evil internet is a popular topic in party circles of the conservatives. also, don't count on the german chancellor Merz to keep promises he made ...

2025-10-14 16:19:58

zombiewarrior

zombiewarrior@mastodon.social

@Tutanota "protect children" "oh you want to protect children you should put prince andrew in jail"
"no we need to surveil everyone but him"

2025-10-14 17:58:07

Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦

dgoldsmith@mastodon.social

Cartoon of Uncle Sam wearing dark glasses with his hands on a package labeled “U.S. Govt Control of Internet Speech.” A man in a suit, labeled “corporate media,” asks “How would you like this wrapped?” On the wall behind him are two rolls of <br />wrapping paper, one labeled “anti-terrorism” and the other labeled “protect kids.”

@Tutanota Here's another classic comic, sadly hard to repurpose for the EU, but the idea is the same.

2025-10-14 18:03:28

Pablo Majster :clippy:

ppaluchowski64@infosec.exchange

@Tutanota And you know what's worst about all this, after delving even deeper into the subject? That it would de facto be the end of *all* privacy 🚫🔐 Because, in reality, this law assumes the scanning of everything sent from our device, not just messages, as is usually said. That's the worst part. That this law normally seems bad because it will scan our messages. But the truth is, this law is the devil because it will scan everything

#ChatControl #FightChatControl #StopChatControl

2025-10-14 21:59:35

dotoscat

dotoscat@mastodon.xyz

@Tutanota Bullshit, if they want really to protect the children this is not the way and they are not doing anything.