If consent mattered, governments and corporations all around the world wouldn’t be pushing to expand the global surveillance apparatus.
Is this just another Tuesday now? Fuck me.
This will probably just make peer to peer messaging apps more popular.
this could finally be a good “reason” to convice some people near me to get into meshtastic
users of apps with a communication function would have to agree via terms and conditions or pop-up messages that all images and videos sent to others will be scanned automatically and possibly reported to the EU and the police.
This is more like coercion than consent.
And let’s be clear: The goal of legislation like this is not to allow investigating child abusers, which can already be done legally. The goal is to impose mass surveillance on the population, circumventing due process.
What if I don’t agree? No messages?
On the next EULA click no or don’t agree and try using the service
It works with cookie popups, except you need to deny them with every page load
They always hide behind the claim it’s for the children… but how many children have they actually saved from this?
They always hide behind the claim it’s for the children
Sometimes it’s the terrorists.
They’re probably gonna put parents behind bars for a misunderstanding on their private lives
This reminds me of that time google was scanning photos and reported a man to the police for being a pedophile, turns out it was a father sending a picture to his doctor
That’s our tax dollars at work.