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Europe's new war on privacy
In theory, Chat Control should have been buried last month. The EU’s ominous plan to mass-scan citizens’ private messages was met with overwhelming public resistance in Germany, with the country’s government refusing to approve it. But Brussels rarely retreats merely because the public demands it. And so, true to form, a reworked version of the text is already being pushed forward — this time out of sight, behind closed doors. Chat Control, for…
Read on Il Fatto Quotidiano.it: Danish proposal for mass surveillance of online communications approved. Italy abstained, Germany decisive for qualified majority.
The sections on discovery obligations would be removed from the proposal and it would be stated that service providers cannot be forced to provide access to end-to-end encrypted data.
The EU had long argued, now it is clear: messaging services such as Whatsapp are not obliged to control chats on portrayals of sexualised violence against children at the moment. Germany, too, had rejected the project.
After many years of struggle, representatives of the EU countries have agreed on a common position on so-called chat control. Messaging services such as WhatsApp, Signal and Co. should therefore not be obliged to search news flows for child pornographic content. Instead, they want to rely on voluntary controls through the apps and platforms. A temporary exception, which allows them this interference despite European data protection rules, should…
Ok of the Permanent Representatives to the EU Council's negotiating position on the regulation to prevent child abuse
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