With the arrest of Telegram’s CEO Durov in France, just a reminder that #chatcontrol is also back on the agenda of EU governments.
The Chatcontrol law in the EU could end end-to-end encryption, threatening user privacy by enabling real-time scanning of private messages.
“They will discuss “progress” on 10/11 October and are to endorse it on 12/13 December.
In June we managed to stop the unprecedented plan by an extremely narrow “blocking minority” of EU governments: Chat control proponents achieved 63.7% of the 65% of votes threshold required in the Council of the EU for a qualified majority.” nostr:npub1x2nsd57m43rt663drdxgnzlfsmmu6p5j7z0xzec2tpxwyvy79sts35u4eh
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The Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU in the first half of 2024 was criticized for pushing forward this regulation: