EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: "Our children lose out"
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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,

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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.

  • wanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    11·
    3 hours ago

    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.

    • quick_snail@feddit.nl
      3·
      52 minutes ago

      PGP is not the only way. And applications that use PFS are preferred.

      The article mentions that WhatsApp is exempt. See also Signal, Wire, SimpleX, etc