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German news website netzpolitik.org leaked a record of internal discussions regarding the EU‘s proposed online child abuse law (dubbed “chat control”) which is much criticised for resulting in mass surveillance and undermining secure encryption. According to the leaked record, the EU Commission expects that 1 in 10 private conversations flagged by “artificial intelligence” algorithms for potential “child grooming” would be falsely exposed to a Europol-affiliated authority without any criminal relevance. The Commission confirmed that communications providers would not be obliged to check the machine-generated reports of flagged conversations before they are being sent. It also admitted the envisaged algorithms are “high risk” technology.

“Since more than the current amount of 29 million machine reports per year are expected as a result of the EU plans, more than 3 million often intimate chats and photos would be wrongfully disclosed every year,” warns German Pirate Party Member of the European Parliament and digital freedom fighter Patrick Breyer. “In truth the unverifiable manufacturer’s statement on the error rate of the secret algorithm is probably much too low. In languages other than English, there will be far more errors. According to the Swiss Federal Police, up to 86% of the machine reports to NCMEC are criminally irrelevant.

We cannot accept countless false suspicions of law-abiding EU citizens as a result of error-prone automated searches in our private conversations. Police and providers have no right to see completely legal nude photos or intimate chats of adults and minors. Exposing sensitive photos and conversations to unknown persons is prone to abuse and might result in the circulation of such material.”

When asked how services could prevent being ordered to search all private messages, the EU Commission cited age limits and preventing direct contact by unknown users. “EU bureaucrats are seriously calling for either totally cutting off 17-year-olds from messages from 18-year-olds or depriving them of any privacy. This is as patronising as if we didn’t allow under-18s to go out unaccompanied”, Breyer said.

The EU Commission also claims to have the support of service providers for its chat control plans, when in fact several have strongly opposed e.g. the proposed attack on secure end-to-end encryption for being able to perform the searches. “The providers must now publicly take a stance: are they accessories to the EU’s mass surveillance plans or are they helping us to stop them?” asks Breyer.

“It is outragous that the abolition of digital privacy of correspondence is being pursued in secret negotiations. We urgently need to take the defence of digital privacy of correspondence into our own hands!” is Breyer’s concluding appeal.

Background:

With the proposed online child abuse law, the EU Commission wants to oblige internet providers to indiscriminately search the content of all messages, emails, photos, etc. of EU citizens for suspicious content and to forward them automatically to the police. The German government publicly criticised this plan and sent a long catalogue of questions to the EU Commission. The secret answers to these questions have now been published by Netzpolitik.org.

Breyer calls for resistance to the plan on his homepage chatcontrol.eu.

Earlier this week CDT director Iverna McGowan warned that the proposal “would actually make everyone in the EU, including children, less safe”, “would essentially create a mass surveillance regime across the EU.” “[Y]ou would never again be able to communicate electronically with the confidence that your information isn’t being intercepted. … The innocent picture you take of your baby in the bath and send to their grandparents could end up in a law enforcement database or, worse, in the hands of child abusers who could manipulate that image.” she wrote in an op-ed.

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Yesterday, the European Parliament and the Council made a deal on the rules for crypto assets. Anonymous payments will effectively be prohibited, interfering with the fundamental characteristics of decentralised finance. Even the €1000 limit for anonymous transactions proposed by the EU Commission has been abandoned. All users of hosted wallets will need to identify, as well as users sending unhosted funds to hosted wallets. Crypto exchanges will have to be extra diligent regarding their dealings with unregistered or unlicensed entities outside of the EU.

Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer, Member of the LIBE Committee who voted against the negotiating mandate, comments:

“These rules will deprive law-abiding citizens of their financial freedom. For example, opposition figures like Alexei Nawalny are increasingly dependent on anonymous donations in virtual currencies. Banks have also cut off donations to Wikileaks in the past. With the creeping abolition of real and virtual cash, there is the threat of negative interest rates and the shutting off of the money supply at any time. We should have a right to be able to pay and donate online without our financial transactions being recorded in a personalised way.

There is no justification for effectively abolishing anonymous virtual payments: Where Virtual Assets have been used for criminal activities in the past, prosecution has been possible on the basis of the current rules. Banning anonymous crypto currency payments altogether will not have any significant effect on crime. The stated aim to tackle money laundering and terrorism is only a pretext to gain control over our private business.”

Background:

The public opinion on the anonymous use of cash is that it is an “essential personal freedom”, according to the responses to the 2017 Commission survey on the desirability of limiting cash payments.

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Parlo spesso di quelle che sono le dinamiche che più da vicino mi coinvolgono, non perché le reputi più imminenti di analisi rispetto alle altre, ma proprio perché mi trovo nella condizione di doverle affrontare quasi quotidianamente. E sono conseguentemente, per me, quelle da cui mi è più difficile provare a staccarmi. Torno quindi nuovamente a ciò che vivo in ambito sanitario come preponderante, e torno a star male al pensiero di quello che sta accadendo. In realtà l’ambiente ospedaliero è consono alla narrazione giusto per il fatto che è lì che vivo la maggior parte della mia vita, e al tempo stesso resto convinto che si tratti di dinamiche che si possono sovrapporre in qualunque altro ambito, lavorativo e non.

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Yesterday, members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) had an informal meeting with representatives of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. During the meeting, the new US “International Biometric Information Sharing (IBIS)” programme was presented. Threatening to reintroduce visa requirements, the USA wants to force EU Member States to grant access to biometric databases. Three EU member states and the United Kingdom are said to have already signed on to the programme. A representative of the EU Commission expressed criticism the USA was deliberately undermining European treaties through direct agreements with EU member states.

When asked exactly what data the US wants to tap into, the answer was: as much as possible. When asked what would happen at US borders if a traveller was known to the police in the EU, it was said that this would be decided by the US immigration officer on a case-by-case basis.

Pirate Party MEP Dr Patrick Breyer comments:

“I expect the EU Commission and also the German government to reject the demand of the US authorities and not allow themselves to be blackmailed. If necessary, the visa waiver programme must be terminated by Europe as well. Millions of innocent Europeans are listed in police databases and could be exposed to completely disproportionate reactions in the USA. The US lacks adequate data and fundamental rights protection. Providing personal data to the US exposes our citizens i.e. to the risk of arbitrary detention and false suspicion, with possible dire consequences, in the course of the US “war on terror”. We must protect our citizens from these practices.”

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