As part of its efforts, the bloc has repeatedly introduced its Chat Control legislation, aimed at weakening the encryption that protects messaging services and force providers to provide a client-side backdoor for law enforcement.

  • @coach_cheese@lemmy.world
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    203 days ago

    The EU is interesting because there is the GDPR that has good data privacy protection but then they keep bringing up chat control which completely undermines privacy

    • @pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
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      333 days ago

      “They” being some proponents starting with Ylva Johansson, but it’s also true that they have never had a majority to actually make chat control happen. They keep trying, but “they” are not the EU as a whole.

    • @surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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      42 days ago

      Because they support limited privacy from corporations, but zero privacy from government. The neoliberals don’t consider that a double standard.