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Chat control vote postponed: Huge success in defense of digital privacy of correspondence! (www.patrick-breyer.de)

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Today EU governments will not adopt their position on the EU regulation on “combating child sexual abuse”, the so-called chat control regulation, as planned, which would have heralded the end of private messages and secure encryption. The Belgian Council presidency postponed the vote at short notice.

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[-] eveninghere@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago

Great, but wasn't it the case that majority in the EC supported it? Did it suddenly become a minority position?

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

When they realized it was insane. Congratulations! Democracy isn't dead

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