‘The more I see of what you call civilisation, the more highly I think of what you call savagery.’
Mainly about protectEU 2030 project. Chatcontrol 1.0 and 2.0 are kinda adjacent to it. Basically more rights to law enforcement and intelligence services in general and them having the right to read anything that goes on in the internet. By this summer they are going to present a law that would make no log VPNs illegal in the EU because law enforcement would have to have access to ip addresses and identifiable ‘metadata’ of the users.
you are right of course. But US surveillance has been public knowledge before snowden and even the big shock then wasn’t that they were mass spying everyone, it was that they were spying US citizens as well which was supposed to be illegal. So legality doesn’t even matter. They will find their loopholes anyway. It’s the intent of the council and the bureaucracy for more control that worries me.
EU regions is also becoming a privacy nightmare with the EU commission’s general war on encryption in the name of “safety”.
I somehow think that all these proposals for chatcontrol were not just enabled by the rise of AI, but were meant to facilitate it. Personal message scanning would be a treasure trove for anybody interested in organic training data since all public social media (reddit, ahem) have been more or less poisoned by ai messages and slop.
Have you ever seen the commercials from late 1800s where there is the word “electricity” in everything. Electrotherapy for every ill and electric solution for every type of drudgery, electrolyte drinks and whatnot. Same came with discovery of radioactivity. Radium drinks for long life and all that. AI is the modern buzzword for the modern snakeoil salesman.