Chat Control 1.0 HAS PASSED
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PrivacyIn case you don't know what 1.0 does:
What is it?
A temporary derogation from the ePrivacy Directive that allowed (but did not require) providers to scan private messages of unsuspected users for potential child sexual abuse material.
Is scanning mandatory?
No — voluntary. In practice used mainly by unencrypted US services such as Gmail, Facebook/Instagram Messenger, Skype, Snapchat, iCloud Mail, and Xbox.
Does it touch encrypted messages?
No. End-to-end encrypted communications were never scanned but providers could deploy client-side scanning under this law.
Status today
Back in force. After expiring on 4 April 2026, it was reinstated on 9 July 2026 when Parliament failed to reach the absolute majority of 361 MEPs needed to reject the Council's fast-tracked "new" law. Only 314 MEPs voted to reject it, so suspicionless mass scanning is permitted to continue until 2028.
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/chat-control-overview
Until this trash starts being scared of dropping dead they have no reason to stop
We don't actually have power over whether or not Chat Control gets passed. The briefcases have decided that they want it, and will push it through regardless of how many delays there are.
crazy how you can have a majority vote against something and it still pass
One thing that I don't understand is:
On July 7 there was a vote for this urgent vote to take place. 303 were against, 331 were for, (- 28 people) (so it passed)
Today (July 9th) the actual vote for this law took part. 314 were against, 276 were for (+38) (yet still passed).
Please tell me why MEP's voted for this urgent vote to take place and then later (on July 9th) voted against it ?? Were they mislead or something?
They both want it to pass and then be able to say they voted against it when asked about it.
aka deceiving the electorate.
Fuck this world
Fuck Populists*
Time to revolt.
The scum pushing chat control are in no way "populists." No actual people want it!
That's how populism works🙃
By the way here are the results of the votes:
July 7th: https://mepwatch.eu/10/vote.html?v=195338&country=&eugroup=
July 9: https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/195775
https://briarproject.org/
https://veilid.com/
Not a fully functional chat app but an interesting project/framework being developed. They've described it as "TOR mixed with IPFS without the crypto." Uses a DHT similar to torrents with built in secure routing reminiscent of TOR. Importantly, it's not a VPN, but designed to be built into the applications themselves. All apps powered by Veilid also contribute to the network and can be assigned any role in "the onion." The most important pitch is that by being built into apps it can bring very strong privacy and security to the layperson, though app developers still need to address things like ensuring users retain access to data without email recovery etc.
Anyway, If you like these kinds of projects I'd look into it. I think it has some really good bones and it feels like we need it to mature sooner rather than later.
https://delta.chat/en/
Looks like its on its last legs. Hopefully they get more collaborators.
Briar is in maintenance mode
This is a quick update about the status of Briar. Short version: the project is still active but we’re only making essential security updates and bugfixes for now.
Long version:
For several years we’ve been trying to find solutions to some of the longstanding issues with Briar, such as high battery usage and unreliable background operation on Android, missing features like account backup and file attachments, and a difficult user experience for adding contacts and communicating offline.
We considered completely rebuilding the application from the ground up, or even splitting it into separate applications for online and offline use. Meanwhile, the project didn’t have funding, we were reluctant to look for funding without having a long-term plan, and so we could only work on Briar in our spare time.
Last year, we decided that we wouldn’t realistically be able to solve these issues and so we reluctantly decided to shut down the project. We worked on releasing a final update for Android and desktop to allow the app to remain functional for as long as possible. In the meantime we were hearing a lot of supportive words from people we had told about our decision, and the app continued to attract new users. So finally we decided to continue the project in maintenance mode. We’re only making essential security updates and bugfixes for now, but eventually we hope to make some incremental progress on those longstanding issues.
We’re sending out this update because some rumours have been circulating that the project is shutting down, based on conversations we had with people in the internet freedom and privacy community last year. Those rumours are out of date: the project is continuing.
Nice
Asking to cyptography experts. Would it be possible to flood a discussion with AI generated slope ? The discussion itslef would not be encrypted, but would be lost in millions of other generated discussion. A "private key" mechanism would be use to identify which message are part of your real discussion.
I suppose this would be compliant with Chat Control, as message are not encrypted. But without private key, you won't be able to identify which message are the good ones.
Seems vaguely similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
I hope we see some push back.
finally something genuinely worth getting upset over, not fuggin playstation cd games
You can also be upset about looming threats to the very concept of ownership.
Today I'm angry about chat control. I'll have to see if I can fit in some time to be angry about looming threats to the concept of ownership on Saturday, because tomorrow (Friday) is my angry at sprawling economic inequality day and I'm usually not finished until around 11pm.
