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The European Comission is looking for feedback on forcing retention of metadata from all communication services for "a reasonable period of time", for purposes of criminal investigation! (furries.club)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by helloyanis@furries.club to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The European Comission is looking for feedback on forcing retention of metadata from all communication services for "a reasonable period of time", for purposes of criminal investigation!

Which means encrypted messaging without a backdoor would be illegal if this passes! That's a slippery slope!

That basically means an attacker with some skill could read any data from anyone (correct me if I'm wrong but I think you can infer the content from the metadata in 90% of cases)

For more detail on why it's bad, click the link below and read literally any feedback comment.

Go ahead and give some feedback! You can do so even if you are not an EU citizen!

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14680-Impact-assessment-on-retention-of-data-by-service-providers-for-criminal-proceedings-/_en
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[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

True. Also, it would be helpful to actually understand what kind of metadata is this referring to and specifically in which cases does this apply and which cases are exempt.. because I expect that if the design of a service explicitly makes it so all the metadata you can collect is not helpful/reliable, then you wouldn't be forced to redesign the service, you'll just provide metadata that's unreliable.

I feel these kind of measures never are really effective at stopping organized criminal activity (since those looking for a way will find it), what they are effective at is tracing/tracking non-criminal private use.

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 1 points 1 week ago

I would say no criminal uses public services to do their business, but then there was the whole Signal thing at the DOD...