EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: “Our children lose out” – Patrick Breyer
www.patrick-breyer.de

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/71975475

Today, the European Parliament allowed the suspicionless mass scanning of private communications (“Chat Control 1.0”) to pass, a measure it had rejected twice in March. Although a majority of voting Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) actually opposed the regulation (314 against, 276 in favor, 17 abstentions), the motion to reject it failed to secure the required absolute majority of 361 votes. As a result, mass scanning is now permitted again until 2028.

  • illi@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    4 months ago

    A symbolic exemption was adopted for encrypted communications—though in practice, service providers do not scan these anyway.

    Well I guess that’s something at least.

  • airikr@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    So you just have to nag and nag and nag until they say “sigh, alright then…”?! WTF?!

  • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
    11·
    4 months ago

    This is exactly how democracy is not working. EU just pushed it through. Despite multi rejections!

    • knomie@feddit.org
      1·
      4 months ago

      This is our implementation of democracy not working. One might even argue that our system is not actually democratic, because, as this example shows, neither the will nor the interests of the people are represented.