Today is the day Mr. Hummelgaard wanted to push through a vote on Chat Control in the EU Council.
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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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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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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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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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In Europe everyone is talking about #DigitalSovereignty - which is great! But we can't have that and undermine our sovereignty by giving law enforcement the key to all encrypted communication. To us at Tuta it's clear:
"There are no backdoors for the good guys only".
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In Europe everyone is talking about #DigitalSovereignty - which is great! But we can't have that and undermine our sovereignty by giving law enforcement the key to all encrypted communication. To us at Tuta it's clear:
"There are no backdoors for the good guys only".
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AI technology designed to detect illegal material cannot distinguish between "good" and "bad" speech. It opens the door for governments, now or in the future, to monitor all messages, photos, and videos. Once the infrastructure for scanning is in place, it can and will be used for other means as well.
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AI technology designed to detect illegal material cannot distinguish between "good" and "bad" speech. It opens the door for governments, now or in the future, to monitor all messages, photos, and videos. Once the infrastructure for scanning is in place, it can and will be used for other means as well.
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Ask yourself this: Would you install a camera in your bathroom so the government can "make sure nothing bad happens"? Interestingly, EU governments themselves don't want the AI to scrape their data.
Check whose data the AI will be able to scan:
❌ Government
❌ Military
✅ YOU
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Ask yourself this: Would you install a camera in your bathroom so the government can "make sure nothing bad happens"? Interestingly, EU governments themselves don't want the AI to scrape their data.
Check whose data the AI will be able to scan:
❌ Government
❌ Military
✅ YOU
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If we allow this Trojan Horse through the gates, we’ll lose the very principle of private communication.
We must say no to Chat Control! Not because we don’t care about safety, but because mass surveillance destroys safety for everyone.
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If we allow this Trojan Horse through the gates, we’ll lose the very principle of private communication.
We must say no to Chat Control! Not because we don’t care about safety, but because mass surveillance destroys safety for everyone.
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Read our Open Letter: 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/open-letter-against-chat-control
And learn why #ChatControl must be stopped:
🚨 Undermines Europe's digital sovereignty
🚨 Weakens everybody's security
🚨 Destroys trust in the European tech industry
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