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submitted 4 months ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

The EU’s so-called Chat Control plan, which would mandate mass scanning and other encryption breaking measures, has had some good news lately. The most controversial idea, the forced requirement to scan encrypted messages, was given up by EU member states. And now, another win for privacy: the EU Parliament has dealt a real blow to voluntary mass-scanning of chats by voting to

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[-] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 10 points 4 months ago

by voting to not prolong an interim derogation from e-Privacy rules in the EU. These rules allowed service providers, temporarily, to scan private communication.

[-] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 4 months ago

It will be tried again next year, and the year after, and the year after, because in EU Parliament, how much money backing you have means how often you can try to push something through apparently, without any sort of restrictions while actual issues that would help the citizens get pushed off and delayed and never re-tried.

this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2026
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