[–]Dry_Row_7050[S] 833 points834 points835 points 3 hours ago (22 children)
When German MEP Patrick Breyer requested the names of the individuals involved in the High-Level Group on Access to Data for Effective Law Enforcement —the group behind the EU’s latest mass surveillance proposal—the EU Commission responded with a document where all names were blacked out. According to digital rights group EDRi:
Their plan includes restrictions on encryption, surveillance mandates, sanctioning messaging apps and more. By the way Chat Control isn’t dead and is also being pushed in such a secrecy EU ombudsman has concluded it maladministration.. Chat Control would, in addition to also banning secure encryption, force people to register on social media with their own identities. Good thing there isn’t an EU-wide digital identity incoming, right?
Despite this secrecy and the dystopian proposal itself, the group’s recommendations are now being used as a primary source for the EU Commission’s “ProtectEU” strategy for 2029. On top of those proposals the commission wants to make Europol the ”FBI or Europe”, while Europol’s boss says Big Tech has ‘responsibility’ to unlock encrypted messages to protect democracy. The same Europol that has been criticized by EU ombudsman for their ties with a chat control tech service provider Thorn
Anyway since every paragraph halves the amount of people making it to the end, here’s what you can do
Give EU your feedback on their new GDPR destroying data retention proposal
And spread the news, on social media and in real life.
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