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Chat control is back on the agenda of EU governments. EU governments are to express their position on the latest proposal on 23 September. EU Ministers of the Interior …
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Pirates: Wednesday’s vote on EU’s Chat Control bill could open the floodgates to unprecedented surveillance [Updated]
Wednesday EU governments are to endorse proposed EU legislation (“child sexual abuse regulation” or “chat control”) which provides for automatically searching all private communications and chats for indications of potentially illegal …
First insight: 42 key points of the secret #EUGoingDark surveillance plan for the new EU Commission
After Sunday‘s European elections, the EU is planning to reintroduce indiscriminate communications data retention without suspicion and force manufacturers to allow law enforcement access to digital devices such as smartphones and …
Public »Going Dark« Consultation: Pirate MEPs call for an end to the undemocratic surveillance forge
The EU High-Level Group (HLG) on access to data for effective law enforcement, also known as the #EUGoingDark group, is consulting non-governmental organisations today. Newly published documents confirm criticism by Pirate Party …
European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-end encryption – the end of EU‘s chat control CSAR mass surveillance plans?
The European Court of Human Rights yesterday banned a general weakening of secure end-to-end encryption. The judgement argues that encryption helps citizens and companies to protect themselves against hacking, theft of …
Leak: Data retention and encryption: EU Government’s “Going Dark” program to attack citizen’s rights with PR
A German diplomatic correspondence that was leaked by netzpolitik.org on Friday and other documents reveal the insistence by EU member state governments in blanket mass surveillance in the form of …
Anti-encryption EU expert group to make access to data a political and technical standard
The EU released a paper on the Commission’s plan for an expert group to replace end-to-end encryption and anonymity by law enforcement access (also known as the “Going Dark” program). …
Data retention and undermining encryption: expert group to present proposals for expanding surveillance by mid-2024
At the request of MEP Dr Patrick Breyer , Europol has published documents showing that a newly established group of experts is to draw up proposals on the topics of …
Clear lines against chat control: Liberals’ paper puts German Interior Minister Faeser on the spot
Original article here. This article was translated by Patrick Breyer’s team with the consent of the original authors from Netzpolitik.org.
Screening chat messages, scanning private photos: For the German …
EU chat control bill: fundamental rights terrorism against trust, self-determination and security on the Internet
Today, the European Commission presented publicly for the first time an EU draft law on mandatory chat control. With the stated intention of fighting against “child pornography”, the Commission plans …