I believe there will be absolutely no privacy when it comes to current commercial Chatbots. We’re already at such a high level of surveillance, that it’s absolutely naive to even think about your conversation being private.

Maybe we see some trustworthy privacy-orientated Chatbots in the future. But for now, true privacy can only be achieved via local hosting.

Extra information I found:

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/interne-dokumente-eu-staaten-einigen-sich-auf-freiwillige-chatkontrolle/

However, the compromise proposal that was formulated was contradictory. It had deleted the article on mandatory chat monitoring. However, another article stated that services should also implement voluntary measures.

Several states asked whether this wording “could lead to a de facto obligation.” The Legal Services agreed: “The wording could be interpreted in both ways.” The Council Presidency “made it clear that the text only contained an obligation to reduce risk, but not an obligation to disclose.”

The day after the meeting, the Council Presidency sent out what is likely to be the final draft of the Council’s legislation. It explicitly states: “Nothing in this Regulation shall be interpreted as imposing disclosure obligations on providers.”

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

It’s amazing to see, when people taste their own medicine.

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

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Already opened a PeerTube account. From time to time I take a look whats going on there.

Hmm, doesn’t this undermine the whole purpose of encryption? If I understand that right, there will always be unencrypted stuff of me? Also when I completely shutdown?

Hehe, no stupid questions I guess! When googling about this type of stuff, I often stumble across some claims I simply cannot verify myself. Some people say it’s unsafe, some people say it slows down everything and so on and some answers are from >10 years ago, so I feel the need to clarify what’s the status quo. Thanks for your view on that.

Good to know. Turns out that linux users are not lost when it comes to this topic!

I will take that into consideration. I already encrypted my older laptop (hard drive) with LUKS. Is there something special, when it comes to encrypting SSD’s? Do you experience speed losses of SSD after doing so?

Sorry, but can you explain a little, how this is done exactly? What should I see, when everything worked correctly?

According to the upvotes, this seems to be the way. I will try that, thank you!

While this guy may be controversial, the discussion is a good one. More companies like Threema also suffer from that law and they should all team up to fight against that.

Let’s say the torrent started with a working DNS and the issue occured some hours later. Maybe the client wants to check for IP-updates then, but won’t find any, because DNS doesn’t work anymore. It will still keep the IP-adresses resolved at the beginning, right? Because then it would make sense, that I saw some working torrents, even though the issue already appeared.

Yeah, did that. Couldn’t DNS-resolve the website because of the issue, but going via direct IP of the “check-website” (found via who.is) made me at least check my IP, which turned out to be the VPN-IP. Torrent-IP-Checking won’t work, because torrents seem to need at least DNS-resolving at the beginning of download.

Yeah, it may be good. Unfortunately unpredictable things can happen…

It may not be ideal for torrenting, but it works for me I think. Maybe that’s a topic for another thread.

I guess I can rule that one out. FF has DNS-over-HTTPS but it’s turned off. The DNS from Mullvad is usually used in my case…

I understand the basic concept of DNS but I am just a little unsure in which part of the process it takes effect. Thanks for your point of view!