golli

@golli@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Majority for chat control possible – Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharing photos and links⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same thing here, but that doesn’t really stop politicians from trying. And somebody has to challenge it first for that to happen, which also takes time and effort.

  Here in Germany we’ve been dealing with a similar situation regarding data retention laws for quite a while now. See wikipedia. It really is quite frustrating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Majority for chat control possible – Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharing photos and links⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Signal recently reaffirmed that they’d rather leave the EU market, than compromise security/privacy. With that they probably couldn’t force them to implement anything, but could force others to stop distribution. So it would e.g. be removed from the playstore. Not sure if they currently do, but they’d likely also need to close any servers they have in the EU. And maybe it would prevent people from donating to them (not using something like crypto to do so).

  Hard to imagine how they’d stop distribution of the apk itself through other means, but I guess they could criminalise the use. Which ofc would be pointless like the whole push for chat control itself. It would punish those that just want the privacy/security it offers for legal purposes, and those using it for crime wouldn’t care about it being illegal. And if you’d ban encryption in general, then goodbye to anything related to banking, confidential corporate secrets, and so on. Also naive to think that having any kind of backdoor it would only be used by “the good guys”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta will shut down its Teams competitor Workplace next year⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how much Meta’s image played a role in adoption of their service. Not that the likes of Microsoft/Google are great either, but subjectively I’d still rather let them in then Facebook.

  Overall this seems like a sizable blow for Meta imo, considering they are heavily investing in being the platform for VR/AR. Productivity might be one of the important use cases, if it ever gets mainstream traction.