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Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU. (mullvad.net)

submitted 6 months ago by kbal@fedia.io to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Under the slogan ‘Think of the children’, the European Commission tried to introduce total surveillance of all EU citizens. When the scandal was revealed, it turned out that American tech companies and security services had been involved in the bill, generally known as ‘Chat Control’ – and that the whole thing had been directed by completely different interests. Now comes the next attempt.

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[–] Kissaki@beehaw.org 22 points 5 months ago

Great extensive write-up.

Stefan Hector, a representative of the Swedish Police Authority, said that “a society cannot accept that criminals today have a space to communicate safely in order to commit serious crimes.” A week later, it was revealed that the Swedish police had been infiltrated and were leaking information to criminals.

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