- According to Buterin, this marks the start of a difficult period for privacy.
- Searching for potentially incriminating content on these platforms would need monitoring.
In response to the EU’s efforts to regulate chats on social media platforms, Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, has spoken out. Vitalik Buterin expressed his satisfaction at the resounding defeat of the European Union’s Chat Control 2.0 plan.
He was appreciative of the work of many people and organizations who worked to kill the initiative. After the recent victory over the authorities, Buterin praised the Europeans. Buterin pointed out in a subsequent post that this may not be the last time laws like this endanger people’s privacy.
Privacy Breach
On the contrary, according to Buterin, this marks the start of a difficult period for privacy protection. In addition to the MiCA legal framework, member states of the European Union have recommended widespread scanning of private communications on encrypted messaging platforms such as Whatsapp and Signal.
Moreover, searching for potentially incriminating content on these platforms would need analyzing videos, photos, and URLs. A government database of known abuse content will be used to conduct the procedure. THis would be done via an algorithm driven by Artificial Intelligence.
Furthermore, reducing instances of child security abuse on these platforms was the primary goal. Also, it is worth noting that the law has to be approved by one of the two EU legislative bodies, the Council. Moving forward, it will be sent to the next level of legislation.
There were a number of privacy activists who spoke out against the plan back then. Including the people running the encrypted messaging services. Some even saw parallels to George Orwell’s 1984 and its depiction of widespread monitoring.
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