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Today EU governments will not adopt their position on the EU regulation on “combating child sexual abuse”, the so-called chat control regulation, as planned, which would have heralded the end of private messages and secure encryption. The Belgian Council presidency postponed the vote at short notice.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Success means passing legislation affirming digital rights in a way that makes such surveillance legislation illegal.

This wasn't a win, it was a small setback.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

That's the current status quo. New legislation can always override old legislation. The only way to fully prevent these proposals would be to enshrine the right to encryption in a new EU treaty (which requires unanimity) and since the national governments are the ones pushing for this while the European Parliament keeps telling to fuck off, it's not going to happen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

It's success. Not huge success, but success. It maintains a mediocre status quo in the face of the possibility of it worsening.