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The End of Privacy in Europe? Germany’s Shift on EU Chat Control Raises Alarm - Coin Surges

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Recent developments in Germany around the European Union’s controversial Chat Control proposal have triggered an urgent outcry from privacy advocates and technology leaders alike. The encrypted messaging app Signal took to social media to voice deep concern that Germany may be abandoning its long-standing principled stance against invasive EU surveillance measures. Signal warns that could effectively end the right to private communication in Eur…

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A new EU law concerns Whatsapp, Signal & Co. - but also numerous consumer protectors. What threatens here?

·Germany
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A proposed EU law that will allow authorities to bypass encryption to scan private messages in chat rooms for criminal content is causing serious concern to the heads of some of the world's largest messengers. — Ukrinform.

·Kyiv, Ukraine
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The planned EU regulation could endanger the privacy of millions of users. Unlike Signal, WhatsApp is not yet threatening to withdraw.

·Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
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Shortly before the vote in the EU Council on the so-called chat control, the AfD warns against an unprecedented attack on privacy. Even the Messenger service signal threatens to leave Europe should Brussels stick to the surveillance plans.

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With a dramatic last-minute drive, the Federal Ministry of the Interior, led by the CSU, is trying to force the approval of the Federal Ministry of Justice (SPD) for controversial EU chat control until Tuesday (7 October). With German support, a majority would then be present in the EU Council for the first time for the chat control and could be swept through the project already on Wednesday (8 October). The drive ignores explicit warnings from …

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Heise broke the news in Germany on Sunday, October 5, 2025.
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