Notices by Jesper Lund (je5perl@eupolicy.social)

@jmaris This sub-sentence struck me "[..] less than a year into your presidency [..]"

I know it feels like a year or more, but #Trump in power has actually only been a month. 😱

@glynmoody Client-side scanning under a new name: "user interactions are reviewed in real-time by automated safety checkers that are designed to ensure compliance with Usage Policies and have the ability to issue warnings or blocks for prohibited activities."

The EU Commission might be thrilled, but no thanks!

@whvholst If "certain platforms" means TikTok, I am seeing posts mentioning that a VPN does not circumvent the blocking for US TikTok accounts (TikTok blocking the user access, not the ISPs which are not covered by the US law). This makes sense because US users get special treatment of having their personal data stored in the US (Oracle cloud), and the US law applies to hosting services as well as app stores.

@whvholst a VPN would work for accessing TikTok videos in a web browser without logging in (depending on what precisely is blocked by TikTok and its US CDNs today).

@frebelt @netzpolitik_feed In addition to the point about democratic legitimacy, the sheer ignorance of the HLG is alarming. I have never seen a set of policy recommendations so divorced from reality. Everything is based on an imaginary premise that all devices and services can be backdoored for law enforcement access without creating any cybersecurity vulnerabilities or risks of abuse. Based on this fallacy, we get the worst ideas of the e-Evidence Regulation and Chat Control combined.

The Going Dark High-Level Group is suggesting that the EU should be more like China/Iran and block access to communications services which do not comply with (also suggested) EU law on lawful interception for all types of communications services ("level playing field"), including of course secure #E2EE OTT services.

Source: background document for HLG plenary on 1 March https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/document/download/26f7710a-ae4b-4616-a062-99fc93680bed_en?filename=HLG-background-document-01032024_en.pdf #encryption