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Comment on Germany Blocks EU Chat Control Proposal, Noting That Mass Surveillance Of Encrypted Messages Must Not Be Allowed by Anonymous Coward
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Germany Blocks EU Chat Control Proposal, Noting That Mass Surveillance Of Encrypted Messages Must Not Be Allowedfrom the thank-you-germany deptJust days after we wrote about the EU’s renewed push for chat control , Germany has delivered a very important “no” vote.
During discussions with EU countries last Wednesday, Germany’s opposition was decisive enough to kill the proposal’s momentum and remove it from this week’s agenda for EU justice ministers.
Hopefully, that means countries will continue to take a hard line against chat control and other similar proposals that attack encryption.
But Germany’s principled stance, backed actually understanding what this would mean for privacy, makes it much harder for chat control advocates to claim they’re just fine-tuning the details.
Filed Under: chat control, denmark, encryption, eu, germany, netherlands, privacy