{"id":67392,"date":"2024-04-18T17:04:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T22:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67392"},"modified":"2024-04-18T17:04:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T22:04:52","slug":"eu-officials-dodge-their-own-surveillance-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67392","title":{"rendered":"EU Officials Dodge Their Own Surveillance Law"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EU Officials Dodge Their Own Surveillance Law<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Leaked documents suggest EU officials seek immunity from their own controversial online surveillance laws, raising accusations of hypocrisy.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Do as I say \u2013 not as I do. That\u2019s the essence of a\u00a0leak<\/a>\u00a0that claims to expose high-ranked EU officials as more than simply politicking hypocrites when it comes to implementing the extremely controversial legislation affecting online privacy and encryption.<\/p>\n

Namely, interior ministers from EU member countries reportedly want to exempt themselves \u2013 but not only \u2013 from the looming\u00a0Child Sexual Abuse (CSAM) Regulation<\/a>\u00a0(aka, \u201cchat control<\/a>\u201c), expected to be adopted as early as in June.<\/p>\n

Pushed by supporters as being exactly what it says on the tin \u2013 the proposed new rules are at the same time criticized as a vehicle for indiscriminate mass surveillance of everyone\u2019s online communications, and a way to weaken true encryption deployed by platforms \u2013 a vital component of internet security, once again, affecting everyone who goes online, children included.<\/p>\n

German member of European Parliament (MEP), Pirate Party member, and lawyer Patrick Breyer, who has been investing a lot of time and energy in drawing EU public\u2019s attention to the dangers that come with the regulation, is now quoting\u00a0leaked documents<\/a>\u00a0published by the French site Contexte, which may or may not prove the context of the already troubled proposed rules, just got even worse.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because, according to Contexte, \u201cEU interior ministers want to exempt professional accounts of staff of intelligence agencies, police and military from the envisaged scanning of chats and messages.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to ministers, police, and spies, anything that\u2019s labeled as \u201cprofessional secret\u201d is also supposed to be exempt from this highly invasive (when it comes to everybody else in the EU) type of content scanning.<\/p>\n

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EU Officials Dodge Their Own Surveillance Law Leaked documents suggest EU officials seek immunity from their own controversial online surveillance laws, raising accusations of hypocrisy. Do as I say \u2013 not as I do. That\u2019s the essence of a\u00a0leak\u00a0that claims to expose high-ranked EU officials as more than simply politicking hypocrites when it comes to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33879,279,284,379,5570,33878,765,34283],"class_list":["post-67392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-didi-rankovic","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-government","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-reclaim-the-net","tag-surveillance","tag-surveillance-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67393,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67392\/revisions\/67393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}