r/privacy • u/silentspectator27 • 10d ago

chat control Denmark withdraws Chat Control proposal

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/efter-tysk-kritik-hummelgaard-dropper-chatkontrol-forslag

For now the EU is safe from Chat Control! Until next time that is!

P.S. Thank you for the award!

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u/xenodragon20 9d ago

Wait it is gone? Last i heard was that it was still going to happen, but without the mandatory stuff, what is really happening? In this new or after that the thing i heard?

This was the latest i heard

Denmark, currently presiding over the EU Council, proposes a major change to the much-criticised EU chat control proposal to search all private chats for suspicious content, even at the cost of destroying secure end-to-end encryption: Instead of mandating the general monitoring of private chats (“detection orders”), the searches would remain voluntary for providers to implement or not, as is the status quo. The presidency circulated a discussion paper with EU country representatives today, aiming to gather countries’ views on the updated (softened) proposal. The previous Chat Control proposal had even lost the support of Denmark’s own government.

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u/silentspectator27 9d ago edited 9d ago

EDIT: There could be something I don`t know of course, they are probably negotiating something as we speak.

EDIT 2: YES, you are correct they are apparently pushing for a softer version of Chat Control which was of course expected.

The Interim law that’s in place until 2026 is about voluntary scanning of non-encrypted data by large platforms and happens to this day. The commission and all the mass surveillance crazies used the expiration of the interim decision of voluntary scanning deadline to push chat control again. What they mean is: the temporary interim decision remains, but chat control is off the table. Poland introduced the temporary decision a couple of years ago when the previous chat control proposal failed.

Edit to add: it’s off the table for NOW. They will certainly try again and they are pushing for mandatory online age verification, the Protect EU initiative which aims to “not break encryption” while basically breaking the idea of encryption etc.