This is worth taking seriously, and worth being precise about. The direction of EU internet regulation is no longer speculative, it is scheduled. A bloc-wide social media ban is expected to be proposed in September. Chat Control, the plan to scan private messages before they are even encrypted, remains live with no final agreement yet. And VPNs, the main tool people use to stay private, are being openly described by EU bodies as a loophole that needs closing. Each of these arrives with its own reasonable-sounding justification. The combined effect is an internet where you are identified by default and monitored by design. The vagueness is the strategy. Naming exactly what is coming is how it gets stopped.
#DigitalRights #Privacy
‼️🇪🇺 BIG TECH wants this, and it was rejected twice, but the European Parliament seems to love undermining democracy, as it votes again next week, for the third time, on reviving "chat control 1.0," the expired EU rule that let tech firms voluntarily MASS-SCAN private messages.
Per German outlet Heise, the Council's workaround is a fast-tracked new proposal with identical content, a route critics say skips a privacy watchdog opinion and lands while many MEPs are on vacation. Former MEP Patrick Breyer calls it an attempted "coup."
That said, case for 1.0 is narrower: It doesn't mandate anything and it doesn't touch end-to-end encryption directly. It restores legal cover for scanning that platforms did for years, mostly hash-matching known child sexual abuse material on unencrypted services like Gmail, Messenger, and Snapchat.
‼️🇪🇺 CHAT CONTROL 🎬
Profiter des vacances pour obtenir une majorité ?
Bien sûr que oui ! C’est même la combine parfaite selon Breyer et tous ceux qui ont encore deux neurones connectés sur ce dossier
Timing stratégique à souhait !
Dernière plénière juste avant les grandes vacances = des eurodéputés déjà en train de boucler leurs valises, mobilisation citoyenne en berne, débats expédiés, attention des médias au minimum 😉
Pile le moment pour faire passer des trucs techniques sans trop de témoins !!
C’est subtil et efficace : on utilise les règles complexes de l’UE (trilogues, procédures écrites, rôle de la présidence du PE) pour relancer un texte déjà rejeté, avec le moins de résistance possble et la lassitude de fin de session en prime
Mais bon... "c’est pour les enfants"
#ChatControl #UE #Privacy ⚠️
Schummeln, tricksen und betrügen, das ist was die Fans der #Chatkontrolle machen, um ihre Überwachungsphantasien irgendwie noch durch zu kriegen.
Wehrt euch!
https://t.co/OJN515TprP