The EU Council and its participants have decided to withdraw the vote on the contentious Chat Control plan proposed by Belgium, the current EU President.

Moritz Körner, Member of the European Parliament, disclosed the decision on Twitter. Swedish publisher SVG said, “The question was removed at the last moment from Thursday’s ambassadorial meeting in Brussels”.

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    971·
    5 months ago

    They will keep trying again and again and again. The assault on privacy has been going on for decades and it will never stop.

    • Dasnap@lemmy.worldEnglish
      73·
      5 months ago

      You’ve gotta defend for an infinite amount of time, but they’ve only gotta succeed once.

      • dactylotheca@suppo.fiEnglish
        381·
        5 months ago

        Yep, and as I pointed out in another comment in this thread, Chat Control isn’t the only piece of legislation like this that’s in the works.

        Considering that the extreme right just won big, I have no doubt that one of these fascist surveillance packages will go through. Yeah, at first it may be used for catching criminals, until it isn’t

        • Grippler@feddit.dkEnglish
          29·
          5 months ago

          Nono, it will always only be used to catch criminals, that won’t change…it’s what makes someone a criminal that changes.

        • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
          11·
          5 months ago

          Considering that the extreme right just won big

          Someone won big yachts from Putin.

          • PonyOfWar@pawb.socialEnglish
            16·
            5 months ago

            Source? In Germany at least that’s not the case, it’s mainly the conservatives who push for it. In the original vote, only the greens clearly opposed it. Later on, SPD (center-left) and FDP (liberal) changed course to also oppose it. Couldn’t find results for other countries though, so I’m genuinely curious.

            • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
              101·
              5 months ago

              I believe all parties in EU are not really understanding technology in general. So I think it’s a very bad decision to give these people power over these kinds of rules. They just have no idea what they are doing frankly.

              • dactylotheca@suppo.fiEnglish
                5·
                5 months ago

                Yep, no disagreement there. This sort of mass surveillance is a fucking terrible idea no matter who’s behind the wheel

                • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
                  3·
                  5 months ago

                  exactly, they these people are constantly trying to come up mass surveillance, over and over and over again. Never ending story.

              • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
                1·
                5 months ago

                I believe all parties in EU are not really understanding technology in general.

                There are pirates. Well, after last elections it seems to be the pirate. Only one.

      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.deEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        Yes. Technically, a similar vote could repeal the law just as easily but there is a history of governments not giving their power away easily; implementing it also sets a precedent and creates technical enforcement options for other governments willing to go through with something similar in the future, or for hackers to exploit because gov-rooted devices will remain in operation for years after the potential repeal.

    • dactylotheca@suppo.fiEnglish
      17·
      5 months ago

      And “Chat Control” isn’t even the only thing like this in the pipeline. There’s the so-called “security by design” bullshit (which does the opposite of what then name implies) that’s actually even worse than Chat Control and has also been worked on in secret, and which’d include mass scale surveillance of not just photos but pretty much everything, and is much more likely to pass than Chat Control.