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fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
2 days agoAfter Years of Controversy, the EU's Chat Control Nears Its Final Hurdle: What to Know
After a years-long battle, the European Commission's "Chat Control" plan, which would mandate mass scanning and other encryption-breaking measures, at last codifies agreement on a position within the Council of the EU, representing EU States. The good news is that the most controversial part, the forced requirement to scan encrypted messages, is out. The bad news is there's more to it than that.
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fromTechCrunch
3 weeks agoWhatsApp to launch third-party chat integration in Europe soon | TechCrunch
"Following successful small-scale tests over the past months, the option for WhatsApp users to chat with users of messaging apps BirdyChat and Haiket directly via third-party chats will soon be rolling out across Europe," Meta wrote in a blog post. "This marks a significant milestone in Meta's compliance with the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) interoperability requirements."
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fromComputerWeekly.com
1 month agoEuropean governments opt for open source alternatives to Big Tech encrypted communications | Computer Weekly
European governments are adopting Matrix, an open standard for end-to-end encrypted messaging, to reduce dependence on US Big Tech and increase digital sovereignty.
Privacy technologies
fromBenzinga
1 month agoElon Musk Says X Messages Are Fully Encrypted With No 'AWS Dependencies' Or Advertising Hooks - Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN)
X (formerly Twitter) is fully encrypted, ad-free, supports file transfers and audio/video calls, and operates independently of Amazon Web Services.
fromArs Technica
2 months agoUK once again demands backdoor to Apple's encrypted cloud storage
Caroline Wilson Palow, legal director of the campaign group Privacy International, said the new order might be "just as big a threat to worldwide security and privacy" as the old one. She said: "If Apple breaks end-to-end encryption for the UK, it breaks it for everyone. The resulting vulnerability can be exploited by hostile states, criminals, and other bad actors the world over."
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fromPrivacy International
2 months agoThe Second Order: The UK Government's new secret order still strikes at Apple's security
If true, this new order is not 'less worse' than the first. That's because, as we have been saying all along, Apple cannot undermine end-to-end encryption of iCloud services only for the UK when those services are used worldwide. If Apple breaks end-to-end encryption for the UK, it breaks it for everyone. The resulting vulnerability can be exploited by hostile states, criminals and other bad actors the world over.
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fromprivacyinternational.org
4 months agoUpdate: Our case against UK Government's secret surveillance orders to be heard in 2026
The Tribunal plans a seven-day public hearing to address Apple's and PI's challenges regarding the UK order impacting iCloud's security, based on assumed facts.
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