Chat Control “porta rischi elevati per la società”, affermano gli esperti di privacy

The poor experts are talking to the void. When the authoritarians set their sights on evil, there’s no listening to experts. Fuck the EU. They’re feeding into what the far-right propaganda makes them out to be: dictators enforcing democracy.

Reminder that these are the organizations pushing For Chat Control:

> Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (C3P), the International Justice Mission (IJM), ECPAT, the Children’s Rights Network, World Vision, Terre des Hommes, Innocence in Danger, the World Childhood Foundation, the Stiftung digitale Chancen, the Children’s Rights Network Germany, SafeToNet Foundation, Thorn, Ecpat network, the Brave organization, the PR agency Purpose, Justice Initiative, Oak Foundation, Eurochild, Missing Children Europe, Hopewell Fund, Heat Initiative, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation

Many of these groups receive funding to lobby for Chat Control from the Hopewell Fund, Oak Foundation, and Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF). The British billionaire Alan M. Parker controls the Oak Foundation, and British billionaire Christopher Hohn controls the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation. The Hopewell Fund is controlled by Arabella Advisors, and they work hard to conceal the sources of their dark money.

Sources for the organizations:

* https://netzpolitik.org/2022/dude-wheres-my-privacy-how-a-hollywood-star-lobbies-the-eu-for-more-surveillance/

* https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the-eus-fight-over-scanning-for-child-sex-content/

* https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2023/09/26/the-eu-fight-against-child-pornography-stokes-fears-of-widespread-online-surveillance_6140055_8.html

* https://theintercept.com/2023/10/01/apple-encryption-iphone-heat-initiative/

* https://www.politico.eu/article/one-man-spam-campaign-ravages-eu-chat-control-bill-fight-chat-control/

* https://www.heise.de/en/background/Missing-Link-Prevention-at-the-Source-Chat-Control-and-Upload-Filters-10963771.html

As for mandatory age verification, I think the UK government’s Ofcom (Melanie Dawes) and Australia’s eSafety Commissioner (Julie Inman Grant) are major players alongside groups like the Age Verification Providers Association (lobbyist organization)

* https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-agrees-advance-child-safety-online-australias-esafety-commissioner-and-uks-ofcom

Finally, take a moment to tell your government officials that Chat Control and mandatory age verification are unacceptable: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/