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.
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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?
What is this? Good news? In this economy? It simply cannot be!
Euroooopeeeee!!!
(Well the EU but it sounds less cool).
EUUU! (said like a new jersey mafioso says “eyyy”)
Yay Europe! Genuinely happy for you folks.
Maybe someday we’ll have freedom and privacy in the US :’)
It’s definitely starting to feel like having your rights enshrined on unalterable tablets of stone, but which must be re-interpreted by a half dozen political appointees holding a seance with the founding fathers every few months, may not be the platonic ideal of governance that Americans are constantly telling the world it is.
Do nine men interpret? Nine men, I nod.
I wonder what all these anti-EU russian propaganda bots are going to use now to sow discontent against the EU… lol
It was a genuine concern, I am happy with the result
Of course. Nothing is black and white. This was a real issue, but still abused by anti-EU propaganda to weaken us.
Yes, but Denmark gave the opportunity to do so. We know we have enemies that wnt us divided, why bring such a stupid and controversial piece of legislation forward.
There should be blame put at their door for this, we know the trolls will troll that isnt new.
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.
Why is it possible to vote for something that is against the constitution?
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
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There is no such thing as permanent laws. And for good reasons.
The war over civil rights is continuing, no questions but this has been an important vote against the surveillance state ambitions.
Shit, I’ve heard so much gear mongoring about this for so long. Also on here.
The EU’s stance have never been anything other than no chat control. All everyone else have pointed out are proposals not even reaching the votes, or got voted down.
I get that you are afraid that the EU would do it anyway and pass the proposals. But they never did, and even if it got voted for today, it’s not even final and needs to go to the council who is openly against it.
But so nice that this is FINALLY put down.
It’s always better to be worried for nothing than not worried for something you didn’t pay enough attention to. Even if something fascist has no chance of passing, you should still resist it as loudly and as aggressively as possible, every single time.
A lot of lemmings really hate the idea of democracy actually working somewhere in the world.
Yeah, tankies can’t handle it.
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In doing so, the Parliament firmly rejected the error-prone and unconstitutional surveillance practices of recent years.
Good news. However shouldn’t that also include online age verification?
No, those things can be done in a completely private way.
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Hell yeah! Great to hear that
Great news!
