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.
Once and for all… until the next vote?
Everything is temporary.
Political participation is a full-time job, keep the pressure on and the change will endure.
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Why have we been talking about EU chat control for years. How many time have this been voted on? and can people just keep popping up chat control if the previous one fail?
They’ve probably realized that American corporations which are ran by the Epstein class get to sift through all the data
What is this? Good news? In this economy? It simply cannot be!
This is democracy manifest!
Euroooopeeeee!!!
(Well the EU but it sounds less cool).
Finally some good fucking news. Now let’s make it so there’s no 2.0 3.0 etc constantly trying to sneak this in - we need to enshrine privacy into real laws.
Now Denmark, don’t you fucking dare doing this again!
Yay Europe! Genuinely happy for you folks.
Maybe someday we’ll have freedom and privacy in the US :’)
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.
*Officially
Why is it possible to vote for something that is against the constitution?
Good News! I was so afraid for our future in Europe.
Losing freedoms in our modern times will lead to just another authoritarian state, which will eventually lead to shit.
Yay for the EU! Hopefully you guys get a law that will permanently enshrine your privacy rights (or rights to encrypted chats at least).
GDPR already exists, but there is no such thing as permanence in politics. Constant struggle
And there have been talks to weaken GDPR to appease Americans. So no rights are never permanent
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Awesome
Can we now put that in some form of European constitution, pretty please with a cherry?
Or we put it on a timer and let it bubble up in some months to reevaluate it over and over again. Wouldn’t that be fun?
The war over civil rights is continuing, no questions but this has been an important vote against the surveillance state ambitions.
Great news!
