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EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 (www.patrick-breyer.de)

submitted 1 week ago by hatingfedizen@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[-] wanderer@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 week ago

So.. what happens next? They start requiring backdoor in all chat apps (for those that do not already have one)? Is PGP now the only way? That would be extremely difficult since "normal" people just don't seem to care at all.

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 9 points 1 week ago

PGP is not the only way. And applications that use PFS are preferred.

The article mentions that WhatsApp is exempt. See also Signal, Wire, SimpleX, etc

[-] Ontimp@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Also: Host your own Matrix or XMPP server for your family and friends. Basically nothing anyone could do to prevent you from doing that.

[-] trilobite@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

And why would these apps be exempt if 90% of all communication goes through them?

[-] StumblingWasabi@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago

I would guess to get it passed then they can work on revoking those exemtions

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago

Don't underestimate the number of communications through email, phone calls, sms, slack, etc.

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