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Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are ignoring data controls mandated under California privacy law at ‘industrial scale’ (globalprivacyaudit.org)
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[–] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Wait, hasn’t the EU also been pushing for mandatory scanning of people’s messages FoR tHe cHiLdrEn?

Or were they just pushing for a backdoor in the encryption to enable selective scanning at a massive scale?

[–] Babalugats@feddit.uk 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

That's what the article linked is about. it was rejected, but Google, meta, snap etc.. said that they're going to scan anyway.