EU’s ‘Going Dark’ Expert Group Publishes 42-Point Surveillance Plan For Access To All Devices And Data At All Times
According to the 42-point surveillance plan, manufacturers are to be legally obliged to make digital devices such as smartphones, smart homes, IoT devices, and cars monitorable at all times (“access by design”). Messenger services that were previously securely encrypted are to be forced to allow for interception.
@corlin and people think the EU data laws are superior
Maybe to some extent they are but the new laws some want, and might get, will just be, mind-boggling, creating situations for users data, and more importantly privacy, to be exploited more than it is now by big tech and government agencies
Awaiting on UK to amend its new laws next to break encryption - to save children after all 🥴
@IrelandTorin @corlin yup
Especially when you actually know what's happening
“Who will benefit from the legislation?” Gerkens asked. “Not the children.”
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The people, and groups, behind it all for this has been documented BUT rarely gets mentioned
Always someone somewhere who'll be gaining from it
@ecksmc @corlin Honestly, I think people have become far too hypersensitized to non-violent injuries, death, and disfigurement.
It's a fact of life. Yeah, it sucks to be the one on the receiving end of it, but we don't have to all panic and wring our hands because one person got hurt or killed.
If a policy saves ten lives but ends up costing society in aggregate 1000 lifetimes worth of time/effort, THAT POLICY IS NOT WORTH IT.
Time is time, whether it's one person's or a million people's.
@ecksmc @corlin That might sound cold and horrifying, but rationally and mathematically it is actually what's best for humanity.
This is why we NEED to shut off our emotions when making societal-level decisions. Not just turn them down, shut them off entirely.
Our emotions did NOT evolve to help us make decisions about technologically-advanced societies of millions or billions of people, they evolved to help us make decisions about ourselves/a tribe of 20 hunter-gatherers out on the savannah.
The "well I have nothing to hide" crowd unfortunately are the majority
Most people don't give a dam as long as their shit works to hell with the people who actually might need to use secure methods of communication
Loadsa countries and governments are heading down this "break encryption" road most people think it must he needed to "save the children"
That war cry works with people
@ecksmc @corlin I know, and it is part of the reason I often state that humanity is defective.
Because it is. Human beings are not fit for purpose at this level of technological advancement and civilizational scale.
We need major upgrades, and we need them yesterday: completely altered emotional dynamics (and much weaker emotions overall), enhanced mathematical and logical ability, massively reduced individuality/selfishness, significantly boosted intelligence... the list goes on.
@ecksmc @corlin Without fundamental changes to humanity - changes pretty much exclusively achievable through extensive genetic manipulation - I think it is now overwhelmingly likely we will either destroy ourselves, or else regress back to a pre-industrial state (in part due to a climate change driven breakdown of modern civilization) and perhaps never fully recover.
The civilizations of the Classical period made unbelievable strides... then crumbled into dust, most of their knowledge lost.
Destruction is a-com-in 😆
There is no turning back, there is no stopping it, all we can do is slow it down, eventually though destruction will be here - I just hope it has bells and whistles and wears a top hat 😂😂
@ecksmc @corlin Given the chance, I'll happily become the architect of destruction... in a "controlled burn" kind of way, making sacrifices in the now to ensure humanity continues to have a path onwards and upwards into the future.
While it might not exactly be pretty, it wouldn't be anywhere near as ugly as continuing on our current trajectory towards annihilation.
I'm sure some wouldn't understand & would label me a villain... but sometimes you have to break a few eggs for the greater good.
@ecksmc @corlin For most of human history, the technology to perform mass surveillance simply did not exist.
And that was fine. We didn't need it.
Some people died, some got hurt, bad things happened, but society kept rolling.
We need to weigh the societal costs of every action to prevent injuries, deaths, crime... against the injuries, deaths, & crime themselves. The "cure" can be WAY worse than the disease, & it OFTEN IS.
Not weighing the costs is how you end up with East Germany's Stasi.
@ecksmc @corlin The overuse of "save the children" rhetoric to push totalitarian bullshit is AWFUL.
And that's the only thing it's ever used for.
Honestly, I wish we could keep our rates of infant/child mortality, disfigurement, etc infinitesimally low... while rolling back the societal *mentality* around this stuff back to the days when child deaths/disfigurements/etc were just a normal fact of life, so "save the children" rhetoric becomes completely/utterly ineffective for pushing 1984 shit.