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Chat Control approved: Certain EU countries will see your private messages. Is yours on the list? (euroweeklynews.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by pylapp@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

For years the plan was to make this scanning mandatory. In early November 2025, however, the Danish government amended the text: scanning is now “voluntary” for individual EU states to decide upon. That small word change was enough for the 27 EU countries to agree on November 26.

If chat control would have been made mandatory, you can bet (and i'd be willing to bet a lot of money on it) that you're going to have AfD in germany and FPÖ in austria (since they're already pretty anti-EU) making a lot of noise about how evil the EU is for infringing on people's privacy. (And they would be right about this, as much as i don't like to agree with them.) This would give them more votes, than they already have.

Making it voluntary is a clever trick of the EU to not make yourself extremely unpopular among the population. Well done, i'd say.

[–] evilcultist@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If they work anything like the far right in the U.S., they’ll raise hell about it til they get elected then implement it themselves.

[–] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Orban's Hungary is in favour, after all.

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

I long for the day that he dies.