Thats actually insane in itself that it got that close. Next time they will succeed. :/

People are so stupid to support this. They dont seem to understand that its never about protecting anyone and its always about building dystopia.

Even worse I think there was one more vote for the extension but they need 50% +1 to pass and there were 24 abstentions.

i don't understand, was EPP for or against the extension ? Cause my understanding was that they asked to have a second vote even if the first one already rejected the extension.

also, I was surprised that in my conservative country no MEP voted with acceptance. but maybe it's because the proposal included adding clauses like this?

(v) not applied to interpersonal communications to which end-to-end encryption is, has been or will be applied;

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-10-2026-0070_EN.html

as regards the extension of its period of application

does it mean that this vote was only about the extension of the regulation that allowed voluntary participation in scanning for chat providers?

honestly, that's the lesser of the worries, we know facebook and fo are scanning all messages going through them no matter what