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Historic Chat Control Vote in the EU Parliament: MEPs Vote to End Untargeted Mass Scanning of Private Chats (www.patrick-breyer.de)
submitted 3 hours ago by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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In a sensational turn of events in the fight against Chat Control, a majority in the European Parliament voted today to end the untargeted mass scanning of private communications. In doing so, the Parliament firmly rejected the error-prone and unconstitutional surveillance practices of recent years. Pressure is now mounting on EU governments to respect the MEPs’ vote and bury untargeted mass surveillance in Europe once and for all.

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[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

Shit, I've heard so much gear mongoring about this for so long. Also on here.

The EU's stance have never been anything other than no chat control. All everyone else have pointed out are proposals not even reaching the votes, or got voted down.

I get that you are afraid that the EU would do it anyway and pass the proposals. But they never did, and even if it got voted for today, it's not even final and needs to go to the council who is openly against it.

But so nice that this is FINALLY put down.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 8 points 1 hour ago

It's always better to be worried for nothing than not worried for something you didn't pay enough attention to. Even if something fascist has no chance of passing, you should still resist it as loudly and as aggressively as possible, every single time.

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

Glad to know. I'd rather be overly cautious than overly careless about privacy, tho (looks across the Atlantic)