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Apostolis Fotiadis
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Investigative Editor, Balkan Insight
Athens
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Demographic Change , Jobs, Banking , Cities, Higher education, Innovation , White House, Entrepreneurship , Health Care Reform
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The EU wants to scan every message sent in Europe. Will that really make us safer? | Apostolis Fotiadis
By Apostolis Fotiadis| The Guardian Verified In my 20 years of being a reporter, I have rarely come across anything that feels so important – and yet so widely unnoticed. I’ve been following the attempt to create a Europe-wide apparatus that could lead tomass surveillance. The idea is for every digital platform – from Facebook to Signal, Snapchat and WhatsApp, to cloud and online gaming websites – to scan users’ communications. This involves the use of technology that will essentially render the idea of encryption meaningless.
By Apostolis Fotiadis| Balkan Insight Verified The European Union’s police agency, Europol, is revising how it screens for conflict of interest when employees move to the private sector following an investigation by BIRN published in September 2023. BIRN had highlighted the cases of two former senior Europol officials who moved to US-based Thorn – which develops artificial intelligence software to target child sexual abuse images, CSAM, online – before a mandatory two-year cooling off period had expired.
The EU wants to scan every message sent in Europe. Will that really make us safer? | Apostolis Fotiadis
By Apostolis Fotiadis| The Guardian Verified In my 20 years of being a reporter, I have rarely come across anything that feels so important – and yet so widely unnoticed. I’ve been following the attempt to create a Europe-wide apparatus that could lead tomass surveillance. The idea is for every digital platform – from Facebook to Signal, Snapchat and WhatsApp, to cloud and online gaming websites – to scan users’ communications. This involves the use of technology that will essentially render the idea of encryption meaningless.
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Balkan Insight