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Germany, Luxembourg, and Slovakia OPPOSED

All three countries rejects breaking encryption and are opposed to Chat Control as currently proposed. This is a critical step, securing the blocking minority required to stop this illegal mass surveillance for now (sources for Germany, Luxembourg, and Slovakia). [...]

A California bill to check kids’ ages online is heading to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk, after it secured rare support from major tech giants, including Google, Meta and Snap.

The proposal, which would require device makers and app stores to verify user ages, cleared the state Assembly 58-0 in the early hours of Saturday with backing from Republicans and Democrats.

Google and Meta, plus other tech firms like OpenAI and Pinterest, rallied around the online age verification plan this week despite recently sparring over similar measures in Utah and Texas. They argue the measure from Democratic state Assemblymember Buffy Wicks offers a more reasonable solution and hope it becomes a de facto national standard for other states weighing mandatory age-checks amid bipartisan concerns about kids’ safety online.

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A third of UK employers are using “bossware” technology to track workers’ activity with the most common methods including monitoring emails and web browsing.

Private companies are most likely to deploy in-work surveillance and one in seven employers are recording or reviewing screen activity, according to a UK-wide survey that estimates the extent of office snooping.

A national digital ID could hand the government the tools for population-wide surveillance – and if history is anything to go by, ministers probably couldn't run it without cocking it up.

That's the warning from Big Brother Watch in its new "Checkpoint Britain" report, published just days after Keir Starmer confirmed the government is considering a national digital identity scheme to tackle illegal immigration.

The civil liberties group says the government's argument that digital ID will meaningfully reduce illegal immigration or employment fraud is poorly substantiated and warns that touting digital ID as a political fix for migration problems is misleading. It argues that ministers have also been far too vague about the plan's scope, which it says could easily extend beyond right-to-work and right-to-rent checks to cover "online banking, booking a train ticket, shopping on Amazon, or scheduling a GP appointment."

The result would be a "checkpoint society" where identity checks become an unavoidable part of daily life, Big Brother Watch says.

And all service providers/hosts around the world are expected to comply.

Here's one summary of the looming access control measures.

Reading and understanding all this (and the linked sources) feels so.. difficult, obtuse, complex.

Comments

A blocking minority has been found for the 4th time 🙂. See y'all in a couple of months when the EU commission makes the same proposal again! 🤝

Voters in:

• Austria.
• Belgium.
• Czech Republic.
• Finland.
• Germany.
• Luxemburg.
• Netherlands.
• Poland.

Your members of european parliament have made a good choice!

Voters in:

• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Denmark (!)
• France
• Hungary
• Ireland
• Italy
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Malta
• Portugal
• Slovakia
• Spain
• Sweden

In 2029 there's new EU parliament elections. You can list your representatives on https://fightchatcontrol.eu/#delegates and make sure not to vote for them ever (again) 👍

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/08/08/return-of-chat-control-something-is-rotten-in-the-state-of-denmark

I'm not sure what kind of algorithm they could use to find CSAM.

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