In a sensational turn of events in the fight against Chat Control, a majority in the European Parliament voted today to end the untargeted mass scanning of private communications. In doing so, the Parliament firmly rejected the error-prone and unconstitutional surveillance practices of recent years. Pressure is now mounting on EU governments to respect the MEPs’ vote and bury untargeted mass surveillance in Europe once and for all.

  • Broadfern@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Yay Europe! Genuinely happy for you folks.

    Maybe someday we’ll have freedom and privacy in the US :’)

    • Tim@lemmy.snowgoons.ro
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      4 hours ago

      It’s definitely starting to feel like having your rights enshrined on unalterable tablets of stone, but which must be re-interpreted by a half dozen political appointees holding a seance with the founding fathers every few months, may not be the platonic ideal of governance that Americans are constantly telling the world it is.

    • Big Baby Thor@sopuli.xyz
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      6 hours ago

      Halt! You have gone below the mandatory threshold for nationally mandated jingoism. An ICE unit has been dispatched to your location to bring you to the RFK Right-To-Labour camp.

      The beating will continue until moral improves.