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this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2025
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If chat control would have been made mandatory, you can bet (and i'd be willing to bet a lot of money on it) that you're going to have AfD in germany and FPÖ in austria making a lot of noise about how evil the EU is for infringing on people's privacy. (And they would be right about this, as much as i don't like to agree with them.) Since they're already pretty anti-EU. This would give them more votes, than they already have.
Making it voluntary is a clever trick of the EU to not make yourself extremely unpopular among the population. Well done, i'd say.
If they work anything like the far right in the U.S., they’ll raise hell about it til they get elected then implement it themselves.
Exactly the play, not just in America, but all capitalist backed politicians. Left and right wing
Orban's Hungary is in favour, after all.
I long for the day that he dies.
That's weird, our fascists in France are all against privacy, unless it's theirs.
AfD is already #1 party in Germany
It seems the article is wrong. It's not that it's "voluntary for individual EU states".. but rather "voluntary" for service providers. The service providers don't have to implement this chat detection if they don't want to.
The thing is that if they don't pass something like this, then by April 2026 a bunch of current services that are already doing CP detection would be breaking the law, since the temporary derogation of the e-Privacy Directive will expire. But I don't think this affects services like signal/simplex who voluntarily choose to not try to detect CP.