tl;dr, they waited for the opposition to go on holiday and then pushed through a special resolution that required them to vote no in order to not pass. It's shady as fuck.
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„The Council then sent the file back to Parliament at the beginning of the vacation season, where it was difficult to secure the necessary majority to dismiss it again“
What are we paying these people for? It should be obvious that it is Part of your duties being a member of parliament to monitor and act on stuff while being on vacation.
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Worst part is - this is the fuel for anti-EU crowd.
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The amended EP position adopts a positive, yet rather cosmetic amendment proposed by the liberal RENEW group that would “exclude communications to which end-to-end encryption is, has been, or will be applied” from the scope of the law.
This isnt cosmetic, this is genius! It satisfies lawmakers who want to make this pass to "save the children" and have no idea of the consequences, and it satisfies the lawmakers with braincells since makes the law inapplicable to secure communications.
I hope this does pass so they finally stop trying to push it through. But since they did pass the voluntary one but are still trying to pass the non-voluntary one, I think they will just try to spam chat control laws until their dystopic aim is achieved.
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So the EU made everyone put endless cookie acceptance popups up in the name of "privacy" then turns around and flagrantly violates it in the name of "protecting children". In the US the only thing that isn't done in the name of "protecting children" is gun regulation.
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How long until they say "people are using E2E to get around this. We need to ban/include E2E now"?
"E2E is just for pedos" incoming.
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Wow the EU pulls ahead of the US in the competition to become the most comprehensive surveillance state
The more I hear about The Pirate Party the more I like them.
Are there any Pirate Party representatives in Denmark?
I checked the danish votes here and it seems like only social demokratiet (social democrats) voted against this bill. All other stronger left leaning parties voted for it as well as all the centrist and right leaning parties. Truly disappointing.
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So what does this mean? Do we have to use China-based chat apps to avoid domestic spying? I assume US companies (including Whatsapp) will bend to the ruling
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Democracy manifest.
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You mean the purpose and the means are the same?
Fuck Euronews. They are a terrible news source for Europe news.
I am downvoting this shit.
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You shouldn’t worry about it unless you do not use E2E encrypted communication
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This is the opposite of what the EU stands for and is largely due to US actors lobbying. As a EU citizen, this is the first time I'm very afraid about the direction we're heading towards.
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That lady committed treason against the EU. What is being done about it?
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The amended EP position adopts a positive, yet rather cosmetic amendment proposed by the liberal RENEW group that would “exclude communications to which end-to-end encryption is, has been, or will be applied” from the scope of the law.
So if E2EE is excluded, then what is even the point of Chat Control? Seems the EU is just telling everyone explicitly to use E2EE chat if they don't want to be spied on.
Security and privacy shouldn't be treated as opposites.
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