The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos

MrBruh

You can directly call your representatives by looking them up here: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en

vrganj

Framing this as the EU's attempt is antieuropean propaganda. It is the Conservatives attempt. The EU parliament is the entity that shot it down last time.

leugim

So they will pass it until is a yes?

elzbardico

They never quit. They just waited for something else to dominate the news, so they could fly it under the radar. The war started, so, they felt it was now or never.

derefr

So... if we all care so much about shooting down the bad idea, why is nobody proposing opposite legislation: a bill enshrining a right to private communications, such that bills like this one would become impossible to even table? Is it just that there's no "privacy lobby" interested in getting even one lawyer around to sit down and write it up? Or is there at least one such bill floating around, but no EU member state has been willing to table it for discussion?

baal80spam

But of course it's back.

elzbardico

Please, could the bootlickers of the European Union stop downvoting every single criticism of it? Are you so obtuse to be unable to figure out that by being like annoying school marms you are just making people start to pay more attention to the populists?

kleiba

If you're ever unsure about whether a proposed EU regulation may be good or bad, just look at whether Hungary supports it: if so, it's bad; if not, it might be good. Egészségére!

dokyun

So much for "digital soverignty".

dgxyz

The trick here is to make it impossible to do so. Don’t put your shit in the cloud and use proper E2E secure messaging. For me the entire idea of the cloud is dead due to exposure like this.

HelloUsername

Why's there '?foo=bar' in the URL?

Stagnant

Okay so I had to look in to it because the site is not really doing a good job explaining it at all. Turns out[0] that they are voting for the extension of the temporary regulation thats been in effect since 2021 (Regulation (EU) 2021/1232). So this is about the "voluntary scanning of private communications" (which is still bad, but has been in effect for almost 5 years already). [0]: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/sedcms/documents/PRIORITY_INF...

foweltschmerz

This is the same EU that blocks and hinders innovation in the name of privacy?

mnewme

Fun fact: the parties that want this are actually those who criticise the EU the most

doener

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522647

Smar

So EU syill wants to harm children.

x775

I am the creator of Fight Chat Control. Thank you for sharing. It is unfortunately, once again, needed. The recent events have been rather dumbfounding. On March 11, the Parliament surprisingly voted to replace blanket mass surveillance with targeted monitoring of suspects following judicial involvement [0]. As Council refused to compromise, the trilogue negotiations were set to fail, thus allowing the Commission's current indiscriminate "Chat Control 1.0" to lapse [1]. This would have been the ideal outcome. In an unprecedented move, the EPP is attempting to force a repeat vote tomorrow, seeking to overturn the otherwise principled March 11 decision and instead favouring indiscriminate mass surveillance [1, 2]. In an attempt to avoid this, the Greens earlier today tried to remove the repeat vote from the agenda tomorrow, but this was voted down [3]. As such, tomorrow, the Parliament will once again vote on Chat Control. And unlike March 11, multiple groups are split on the vote, including S&D and Renew. The EPP remains unified in its support for Chat Control. If you are a European citizen, I urge you to contact your MEPs by e-mail and, if you have time, by calling. We really are in the final stretch here and every action counts. I have just updated the website to reflect the votes today, allowing a more targeted approach. Happy to answer any questions. [0] https://mepwatch.eu/10/vote.html?v=188578 [1] https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/the-battle-over-chat-contro... [2] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/OJQ-10-2026-03... [3] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-03-...

hsuduebc2

Nice website! Sadly, url stays the same across all coutries. I can't send anyone direct link.

hsuduebc2

I absolutely don't understand how anyone can support this in the context of rising authoritarianism. Even people in my country which are talking about this phenomena support it. I strongly suspect that they do absolutely know shit about why it's problematic. I wonder if they would support that every of paper mail would be opened and checked. I strongly doubt that.

max_

The lack of accountability after what was exposed in the Epstein files illustrates that not one in power actually care about kids. "Save the kids", is just a ploy to run scams.