Alexander Hanff, survivor of child sexual abuse and privacy advocate, clarifies: “As a survivor I relied on confidential communications to tell my story and find justice for 28 schoolboys—myself included—resulting in the conviction of multiple offenders. We survivors need privacy, because without it we lose our voice. Chat Control was not created to protect children. It was about Big Tech companies like Meta or Google wanting access to our data for profiteering, and states attempting to expand mass surveillance. The EU Commission has wasted five years and millions of euros on algorithms that cannot protect children and were never meant to. This money should have been diverted to real policing, causal research, and support for survivors, millions of whom have never received any support at all.”

The EU really wants to know who is calling them incompetent assholes.

This project looks interesting, as an alt platform attempting to add e2e security, with desktop and mobile: https://delta.chat/en/download

It has a neat way of adding apps within the chat platform.

This is exactly how democracy is not working. EU just pushed it through. Despite multi rejections!

So you just have to nag and nag and nag until they say "sigh, alright then..."?! WTF?!

I see 2 different, but related topics being mixed up in the comments a little.

This is an extension of a measure which has been in place since 2021. This is not the new legislation that was proposed earlier this year and late last year.

I do not believe this is a good thing at all! But we should all be clear what the discussion is.

The first iteration of Chat Control, commonly dubbed "Chat Control 1.0", was introduced as a temporary measure in 2021. It was ultimately ended on 26 March 2026, when a vote to reject its extension passed by one vote. The next iteration of Chat Control, commonly dubbed "Chat Control 2.0", is still under discussion.

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Welcome to the Fourth Reich of Europe, citizen. You'd better like it here. Orelse.

So.. what happens next? They start requiring backdoor in all chat apps (for those that do not already have one)? Is PGP now the only way? That would be extremely difficult since "normal" people just don't seem to care at all.

A symbolic exemption was adopted for encrypted communications—though in practice, service providers do not scan these anyway.

Well I guess that's something at least.

I wish one day there’s news about EU that isn’t just shitty because I’m tired boss.

Surely it needs more in favor to pass? Ugh I need to reducate myself on this system

Although a majority of voting Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) actually opposed the regulation (314 against, 276 in favor, 17 abstentions), the motion to reject it failed to secure the required absolute majority of 361 votes

I'm a bit OOTL. How the hell does that even work?

Roll it back!

Everyone loses out.

Huh, does the article say that cloud storage is already scanned without suspicion?

Let's build a better internet from I2P with 0 user identifications.

In case those in the EU thought they were safe from fascism.

As LoRan and HaLow devices get popular and cheaper I wonder if kids will solve this problem with home grown solutions.

reminder that Zensursula von der leyen doesnt want us reading her text messsges

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizergate?wprov=sfla1

Maybe climate change turns out to be the good thing.

ok. here is the US we got a fucked up president. honestly i looked into what ot would take to move in case things got really really bad. but both canada and uk (maybe france) passed Meta's kid ID law. now the EU is passing this. our government may be disfinction due to insane infighting but this stuff doesnt get passed. now some states have but that can be overriden. and its a lot easier to relocate states.

i do want people to know that i am complaining because i wanted europe to be the goos guys. i was on a big europe software and services mission but this stuff is crazy.

What's the point of even having a vote if it goes through with less than half in favour, after already failing twice?

Today, the European Parliament allowed the suspicionless mass scanning of private communications (“Chat Control 1.0”) to pass, a measure it had rejected twice in March. Although a majority of voting Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) actually opposed the regulation (314 against, 276 in favor, 17 abstentions), the motion to reject it failed to secure the required absolute majority of 361 votes. As a result, mass scanning is now permitted again until 2028. ...

“Today’s vote on the interim regulation was a setback, but the political battle over the permanent ‘Chat Control 2.0’ is just getting started. The resistance we saw in Parliament today was so strong that finding a majority for permanent, suspicionless mass scanning in future negotiations is a complete pipe dream.”

Damn. How can they keep pushing the same legislation until it passes?

Also, what's next for privacy focused people? It says there's an exemption for E2E encryption, but isn't Meta conveniently getting rid of that for WhatsApp soon?

So the Commission, members of which are appointed rather than elected, agree to send awful legislation to the elected parliament.

Then it's assumed approved until rejected by an absolute majority, allowing for ZERO abstentions in an organization spanning 27 countries spread across most of a continent?

Not broken at all, nuh-uh! 🤦🏻🤬