Europe’s Chat-Scanning Law Reaches Its Last Room
Patrick Breyer counts down to a Tuesday-evening trilog on Chat Control, while the rest of the feed files its own evidence about who gets to read your messages.
The EU regulation its opponents call Chat Control went into what Patrick Breyer describes as its final trilog on Tuesday evening, and the former MEP spent the window treating it as a deadline. On Monday he reported that people had marched in Warsaw on Saturday under the line Big Tech darf unsere Chats nicht überwachen!
— Big Tech must not surveil our chats — and warned that Dienstag droht der finale Deal.
By Tuesday morning it was a countdown: Bis 18 Uhr noch zum Telefon greifen!
Phone your representative before six.
His ask is narrow and specific. Negotiators, he writes, must not accept “search plans” or mass scanning in the room tonight; he points readers at a list of delegates’ phone numbers and a press release arguing that EU governments want search plans to permanently legalise mass scanning. Breyer’s countdown · the Warsaw report
The outcome was not known when this edition closed. What the rest of the lens supplied, unprompted, was the case for caring. Eva Galperin, posting as evacide, linked a report that Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed three times: a sticker campaign against licence-plate readers that opens Nobody wants to be on camera everywhere, all the time.
, an interview about the AI-integrated surveillance towers along the US–Mexico border, and a guide to shrinking your digital footprint. Signal, marking a year of Secure Backups, listed on-device backups, cross-platform support and attachment backfill for linked devices. EFF · the border towers · Signal
And the Cypherpunk Quotes account, which posts on a schedule and could not have known what day it was, reached back to John Gilmore in 1993: My response to the NSA is: Show us.
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