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[-] yokonzo@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago

Can someone explain to an American what chat control is?

[-] Vaginal_blood_fart@feddit.uk 71 points 4 months ago

Basically scanning communications and breaking encryption, under the guise of predictably stopping child abuse

[-] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 months ago

and technically, how would they achieve this?

[-] hydration9806@lemmy.ml 21 points 4 months ago

Originally governments wanted backdoors into encryption protocols, but now they seem to want client side scanning (i.e. scanning messages on your phone before it's encrypted and sent out)

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