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  • Quick primer. This is not the Parliament. This is the Council, the intergovernmental branch of the EU. Specifically, a meeting of national justice ministers. They sometimes vote but their real objective is to find consensus, since the EU is not a federation and it’s politically hard to pass anything against the wishes of national governments. If they can agree, then it goes to the Parliament, which definitely does vote and is obviously a bit more open to influence from ordinary voters.

    From the agenda for tomorrow:

    Ministers will also exchange views on the concluding report of the high-level group on access to data for effective law enforcement. At this year’s June meeting of home affairs ministers the Council welcomed the group’s 42 recommendations on access to data. At the upcoming meeting ministers will discuss the way forward now that the group has presented its concluding report.







  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlCHATCONTROL STOPPED!
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    20 days ago

    Agreed, it’s definitely a problem. And in fact it’s even worse because it turns out that today’s supposedly progressive and well-informed youngsters in fact get their news from TikTok and tend to vote for authoritarian populists even in western Europe.

    Again: downvoting facts, sticking one’s fingers in one’s ears and going “lalalalala”, does not make the facts go away. It is an inconvenient fact that far-right parties across Europe are doing particularly well among young voters.






  • ive heard people say

    So, literal hearsay.

    its not perfect against if the signal servers where malicious (btw said servers are not open source).

    The server is centralized so it’s irrelevant whether it’s open source or not, we have no means of checking.

    $1 from the cia funding it is $1 too much.

    Seems you’re referring to initial funding from the Open Technology Fund. That’s a US government body that promotes technologies that undermine authoritarian regimes. Signal fits the bill perfectly. In any case that was a decade ago. Since then there has been far more money from various do-gooding individuals and foundations. In particular the Freedom of the Press Foundation, which (I just checked) is vouched for by various whistleblowers including Edward Snowden. So, hardly a stooge of US imperialism.


  • Yes but the difference with every other messenger is that they can’t even see who your message is going to. Due to E2E encryption of contact data.

    What remains is the phone number issue. Verifying a phone number is by far the simplest and most effective way to prevent abuse, which is obviously a major issue with any messenger. There’s no reason to disbelieve them when they this is the reason for it.

    So: yes, they know who their users are individually. But they cannot know who is talking to who, let alone what is being said.


  • This is consipiracism-adjacent.

    It’s E2E encryption and the source code is public. Uniquely, the E2EE includes the social graph.

    They’ve got money from a bunch of people and organizations, That’s also all public. As for any organization, to have a wide variety of stakeholders with different interests is the best possible guarantee of independent.

    But I agree that the ideal destination is to fully federate the protocol.


  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlAnyone here use GrapheneOS??
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    So the answer to the 27-step question is Yes. Alas. Still nowhere near as easy as installing Linux on an Intel laptop. Which of course is already way too hard for most folks.

    Still, well done for doing it.

    U: downvoting facts does not make them go away. This was not a personal attack. I want this solution to to be more viable than it is, that is all.