“Chat Control 1.0 – a temporary derogation from ePrivacy rules designed to detect online child sexual abuse – was adopted by the European Parliament today.
The regulation would remain in effect until 3 April 2028, providing a substantial buffer while lawmakers negotiate an agreement on the updated framework, Chat Control 2.0.
(…) The President of the Open Dialogue Foundation, Lyudmyla Kozlovska commented for EUTechLoop that the vote on Chat Control 1.0 should be viewed in a broader context of erosion of privacy in the EU:
“That vote should trouble anyone who cares about how democracy in the EU works, not just about privacy. It’s the same approach to normalising the erosion of privacy that we’ve seen before – first with financial privacy, then travellers’ data, now our communications: a sweeping power justified by an urgent-sounding purpose, then quietly normalised. And the result? Financial, security and cybersecurity laws are now heavily weaponised by adversaries of the EU against its own citizens and entities, for transnational repression.The real fight for encryption and the privacy of communication is in September, over Chat Control 2.0. Between now and then, the resistance has to be strong enough that no procedural trick can carry it.”“
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