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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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[–] bonenode@piefed.social 188 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Once and for all... until the next vote?

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 91 points 1 week ago

Everything is temporary.

Political participation is a full-time job, keep the pressure on and the change will endure.

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[–] theherk@lemmy.world 139 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What is this? Good news? In this economy? It simply cannot be!

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 18 points 1 week ago

This is democracy manifest!

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Euroooopeeeee!!!

(Well the EU but it sounds less cool).

EUUU! (said like a new jersey mafioso says "eyyy")

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 79 points 1 week ago

Finally some good fucking news. Now let's make it so there's no 2.0 3.0 etc constantly trying to sneak this in - we need to enshrine privacy into real laws.

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 71 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yay Europe! Genuinely happy for you folks.

Maybe someday we’ll have freedom and privacy in the US :’)

[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 week ago

Halt! You have gone below the mandatory threshold for nationally mandated jingoism. An ICE unit has been dispatched to your location to bring you to the RFK Right-To-Labour camp.

The beating will continue until moral improves.

[–] timwa@lemmy.snowgoons.ro 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's definitely starting to feel like having your rights enshrined on unalterable tablets of stone, but which must be re-interpreted by a half dozen political appointees holding a seance with the founding fathers every few months, may not be the platonic ideal of governance that Americans are constantly telling the world it is.

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[–] BladeFederation@piefed.social 61 points 1 week ago
[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 57 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Awesome

Can we now put that in some form of European constitution, pretty please with a cherry?

Or we put it on a timer and let it bubble up in some months to reevaluate it over and over again. Wouldn't that be fun?

🫩

[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I wonder what all these anti-EU russian propaganda bots are going to use now to sow discontent against the EU... lol

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was a genuine concern, I am happy with the result

[–] iglou@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Of course. Nothing is black and white. This was a real issue, but still abused by anti-EU propaganda to weaken us.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Yes, but Denmark gave the opportunity to do so. We know we have enemies that wnt us divided, why bring such a stupid and controversial piece of legislation forward.

There should be blame put at their door for this, we know the trolls will troll that isnt new.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Probably pointing out the imperialism. It’s important to listen to your critics because there can be kernels of truth amongst the bullshit.

[–] Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

russians pointing out imperialism... how ironic

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

Nobody said they had to be morally integer...

.ml users crying in their commie blocks

[–] Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 week ago

Why is it possible to vote for something that is against the constitution?

[–] Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yay for the EU! Hopefully you guys get a law that will permanently enshrine your privacy rights (or rights to encrypted chats at least).

[–] jeffep@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

GDPR already exists, but there is no such thing as permanence in politics. Constant struggle

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And there have been talks to weaken GDPR to appease Americans. So no rights are never permanent

[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is no such thing as permanent laws. And for good reasons.

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[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

Good News! I was so afraid for our future in Europe.

Losing freedoms in our modern times will lead to just another authoritarian state, which will eventually lead to shit.

[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Shit, I've heard so much fear 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 37 points 1 week 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.

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

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

This is a really naive take - this amendment (which requires message scanning to be targeted) passed with a slim majority and could well have failed. In that case the existing mass surveillance ("voluntary scanning") would probably keep happening at least until 2028.

The council meanwhile is overwhelmingly pro-message-scanning, and they (together with the commission) are the ones who are pushing to break e2e encryption. There will now be talks between the three institutions to decide on how to proceed. Sadly I expect that some "compromise" will be reached eventually.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Says the guy overlooking the other trojan horse of age controls being brought inside the walls. Your analysis is not so good.

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[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In doing so, the Parliament firmly rejected the error-prone and unconstitutional surveillance practices of recent years.

Good news. However shouldn't that also include online age verification?

[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

No, those things can be done in a completely private way.

[–] Jiral@lemmy.org 21 points 1 week ago

The war over civil rights is continuing, no questions but this has been an important vote against the surveillance state ambitions.

[–] testaccount372920@piefed.zip 15 points 1 week ago

Hell yeah! Great to hear that

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Now Denmark, don't you fucking dare doing this again!

[–] PokerChips@programming.dev 13 points 1 week ago

They've probably realized that American corporations which are ran by the Epstein class get to sift through all the data

[–] Antaeus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Great news!

[–] me_myself_and_I@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

*Officially

[–] greenbit@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Europe has pressure to shift the narrative from all systems and institutes have been a part of the parasite class goals, to these concessions. "Noo don't collapse us, we are less rigged". But rigged is still rigged

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