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

submitted 4 months ago by pylapp@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 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.

[–] idefix@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 months ago

That's weird, our fascists in France are all against privacy, unless it's theirs.

[–] evilcultist@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 months ago (2 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.

[–] piwakawakas@lemmy.nz 5 points 4 months ago

Exactly the play, not just in America, but all capitalist backed politicians. Left and right wing

[–] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Orban's Hungary is in favour, after all.

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago

I long for the day that he dies.

[–] just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

AfD is already #1 party in Germany

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It seems the article is misinterpreting things. It's not that it's "voluntary for individual EU states".. but rather "voluntary" for service providers. The service providers don't have to implement this chat detection if they don't want to.

The thing is that if they don't pass something like this, then by April 2026 a bunch of current services that are already doing CP detection would be breaking the law, since the temporary derogation of the e-Privacy Directive will expire. But I don't think this affects services like signal/simplex who voluntarily choose to not try to detect it.