Council to greenlight Chat Control – Take action now!
[Update: Vote has been postponed to Thursday, keep up the pressure!]
The Belgian EU Council presidency seems set to have bulk Chat Control searches of our …
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Majority for chat control possible – Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharing photos and links
The highly controversial indiscriminate child sexual abuse regulation (so-called chat control) could still be endorsed by EU governments after all, as France could give up its previous veto. This is …
‘Let yourself be monitored’: EU governments to agree on Chat Control with user “consent” [updated]
Based on a new proposal by the Belgian Minister of the Interior, EU governments could endorse the much-criticised child sexual abuse regulation (CSAR or chat control) as early as June …
Leak: EU governments double down on penalising privacy-friendly and encrypted messaging services with chat control bulk scanning orders
An updated version of the methodology to be used in the Child Sexual Abuse Regulation, leaked by the news portal Contexte, reveals more details on the approach pursued by …
Leak: Privacy-friendly and encrypted messaging services are to be penalised with chat control bulk scanning orders
A document leaked yesterday by the news portal netzpolitik.org reveals for the first time which messenger and chat services are to be labelled as “high risk” according to the …
Leak: EU interior ministers want to exempt themselves from chat control bulk scanning of private messages
According to the latest draft text of the controversial EU Child Sexual Abuse Regulation proposal leaked by the French news organization Contexte, which the EU member states discussed, …
#ChatControl 1.0: Pirates condemn extension by Parliament
Today, the European Parliament adopted the trilogue deal on the extension of the controversial, error-prone voluntary bulk scanning of private messages and photos for suspected content by US internet companies …
Pirate lawsuit: German Regional Court refuses to rule on legality of voluntary chat control scanning of private messages
Shortly before the European Parliament is to extend the voluntary chat control bulk scanning of private messages by US services such as Facebook, Instagram, or Gmail by two years, …
Full chat control proposal leaked: attack on digital privacy of correspondence and secure encryption
The French news service contexte.com has today published the latest Belgian Presidency’s proposal for introducing indiscriminate chat control scanning of private messages for illegal content. The proposal covers the …
Chat control: New EU government attempt to bulk search private messages and destroy secure end-to-end encryption
According to a document leaked by netzpolitik.org, the Belgian Council Presidency, led by conservative Home Affairs Minister Annelies Verlinden, proposes minor changes to the controversial EU Commission’s Chat Control …