Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: european union

Interesting to compare and contrast EU attempts to force chat control, with failed Australian attempt at the same from 2024:

2025/11/19
Essential thread from Kay Jebelli re: Google/Meta dropping Political Advertising in the EU, aghast civil society groups demanding they “continue, and be regulated”

2025/10/21
Von der Leyen Pushes EU Online Speech Crackdown in 2025 | EU wants to ban European under-16s from social media

2025/09/12
Chinese Cybersecurity Regulator demands answers from Nvidia regarding remote shutdown, tracking capability in hardware

2025/07/31
I’m delighted to learn Switzerland has taken my advice and will be launching a Swiss national LLM | …relearning the lessons of 1981 & 2005

2025/07/09
The EU wants to decrypt your private data by 2030 | TechRadar

2025/07/06
EU delays biometric border plan again as demand for fingerprints could be scrapped | The Independent

2024/10/11
Reminder: ChatControl is back from the dead. Again. The European Union want all the world’s messenger software to have state surveillance built into the code

2024/09/06
The EU’s pursuit of regulatory control over tech will lead to doctrinal self-extinction of Europe from the tech sphere and the primacy of Anglophone & Sinophone tech (HT: @KayJebelli)

2024/07/18
Booking chief slams EU over ‘dumb’ [DMA] regulations

2024/06/21
First insight: 42 key points of the secret #EUGoingDark surveillance plan for the new EU Commission | Patrick Breyer

2024/06/21
‘Encryption is deeply threatening to power’: Meredith Whittaker of messaging app Signal | Chat and messaging apps | The Guardian

2024/06/18