Private Messages Could Be Scanned in Europe as EU Vote Reignites Surveillance Fears
The measure keeps voluntary scans in place after lawmakers fell 47 votes short of the majority needed to block it.
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The European Parliament approved the extension of the authorization for digital platforms to analyze certain private messages. João Cotrim Figueiredo MEP voted against and comments on the decision.
A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway.
Companies will once again be allowed to scan citizens’ personal texts, emails, and social media messages via the “chat control” bill to find child abuse material online.
The EUROPEAN Parliament has again approved the temporary measure
Hyperdemocratic European Parliament reimposes mass electronic surveillance regulation after a majority votes it down three times
That title is polemical, okay? But it’s morally right. Subscribe nowIf anybody cares, what actually happened is that an extension of the European Union’s mass surveillance regulation known as Chat Control 1.0 failed to make it out of the European Parliament twice in March. Unable to summon a clear parliamentary majority, advocates (mostly in the centre-right European People’s Party [EPP]) turned to the European Council, which adopted the failed …
The majority of European Parliament deputies in the session voted against tracking citizens under the guise of child protection, but it was still declared accepted. This was reported by the press service of the body.Chat Control, a package of European measures that introduced the scanning of user messages. Formally, they were tested for child pornography (CSAM), but in the future the authorities would be able to use the measure to search for any…
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