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URGENT: PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY COMMUNICATION RIGHT NOW! on 4th Sept 2024 #ChatControl regulation representatives of EU goverments will resume work based on a secret document according to Patrick #Breyer, former Member of the European Parliament. Help to mobilize everybody to defend our #privacy of communication and its developers, investors! If no preventive actions from your side now, this regulation will be endorsed on 12/13 December 2024. According to the draft regulation dated 28 May (Council document 9093/24), ChatControl deploys to do, for instance: 🔻 “upload moderation”, users of apps and services with chat functions are to be asked whether they accept the indiscriminate and error-prone scanning and possibly reporting of their privately shared images, photos and videos. 🔻Scan by “artificial intelligence” technology previously unknown images and videos; 🔻If a user refuses the scanning, they would be blocked from sending or receiving images, photos, videos and links (Article 10). 🔻End-to-end encrypted services such as Whatsapp or Signal would have to implement the automated searches “prior to transmission” of a message (so-called client-side scanning, Article 10a). During the last discussion on 24 May, the Council Legal Service made it clear that indiscriminate chat control scanning of non-suspects is still envisioned and remains a violation of fundamental rights. Nevertheless, most EU governments are determined to go ahead. https://netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2024/05/2024-05-28_Council_Presidency_LEWP_CSAR_Compromise-texts_9093.pdf 🌎 Tell your goverment and parliamentarians, that the proposal should be rejected altogether! 🔴Is your government in favour? → Ask for an explanation and for your government to revert its course. 🟡Is your government abstaining? → Ask why and demand that they take a strong stance against chat control. 🟢Is your government opposing? → Great, but take a closer look at the reasoning: Some governments like #Germany e.g. only object to the scanning of encrypted communications, but are fine with the indiscriminate scanning of other private and public communication, with the end of anonymous communication by requiring age verification, or with introducing a minimum age for “risky” communication apps. Also critical governments need to do more, exert their influence in the Council of the EU and agree on a joint list of necessary fundamental changes to the proposal. Absent such revision they should ask the European Commission to withdraw the chat control proposal as it stands. 🔴 In favour of ChatControl: France, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden. 🟡Abstained: Estonia, Netherlands, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Austria 🟢 Opposed the proposal: Germany, Poland When reaching out to your government, the ministries of the interior (in the lead) of justice and of digitisation/telecommunications/economy are your best bet. You can additionally contact the permanent representation of your country with the EU:

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Every time when I was said “bitcoin doesn’t care” I was telling that we need to protect and PREVENT attacks against developers, investors, end-users and entire ecosystem of Bitcoin, including miners. Case of #Durov is a bright example what we can expect if technology is labeled with negative language by regulators in western countries, especially EU. If it isn’t protected now, privacy will be classified as a crime, just like in the case of Durov by French law enforcement agencies: 🔻providing cryptology services aiming to ensure confidentiality without certified declaration; 🔻“providing cryptology services aiming to ensure authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration”.

I had the honour of sharing my personal experience with Melanion Capital & Jad #Comair on their podcast about how easy it is to weaponise the financial data of every resident and citizen of Western countries. The refusal to protect banking secrecy has led to a massive failure in the protection of human rights. #Bitcoin p2p transactions have become the only available tool for the financially repressed and excluded as a consequence of the abuse of AML/CFT laws. We live in a time when financial institutions have been given the right to police activities of citizens. If your rights are violated by the police, you have the possibility of defence/remedies. However, with financial institutions, there are no such mechanisms due to Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations. I experienced this first hand when three authoritarian regimes abused my and Open Dialogue Foundation banking data getting it from #Belgium and #Poland. Banking records obtained by three regimes became a weapon against me and anyone who worked, received our support in different countries or championed our human rights work at the time. I able to continue my human rights work and hold accountable perpetrators of violations of my rights thanks to #freedomtech Bitcoin. Ironically, AML/CFT laws were created to fight criminals, oligarchs, dictators corrupting western countries. In reality - AML/CFT laws have become the most effective tool for #TransnationalRepression, breaking down all barriers to protect the right to #privacy of #correspondence, #transactions, #movements. If you think that this only applies to dictatorial or authoritarian countries, you are sorely mistaken. Want to learn more? Listen our 🎙️ Ep32 of ‘Bitcoin Equities Talks’ with Melanion Capital

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