The 🇪🇺 European 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 🛌

✍️ Amendment 5, tabled by Pirate MEP 🇨🇿 Markéta Gregorová (Greens/EFA) and passed by a narrow vote, mandates that scanning of private communications be restricted solely to users or user groups where a competent judicial authority suspects links to child sexual abuse.

This ends the debate and the concerns over:

🖕 Untargeted mass scanning of all private messages/chats without suspicion or warrants

🖕 Breaking end-to-end encryption in secure apps (WhatsApp, Signal etc.)

🖕 Undermining fundamental rights to privacy, data protection, and confidential correspondence.

There's still some work to be done updating policies, I'll keep monitoring until it's done 🛌

Sauce: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-10-2026-0040-AM-004-006_DE.pdf

#Privacy #ChatControl

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