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Ella Jakubowska (@ella@eupolicy.social)

(1/2) Is this the end of #ChatControl ? Well, not quite, but big news nevertheless! The Danish govt has told reporters that they plan to drop th...

Positive update on #ChatControl. The EU's member states are set to officially agree to delete forced mass scanning orders (which could undermine encryption) this week! This puts the protection of civil liberties in a much better situation for final negotiations with the EU Parliament. However, it doesn't mean that all the proposal's issues have been solved - we're especially worried about the threat of forcing message apps, email services and app stores to perform risky age verification. View quoted note →

(1/2) Is this the end of #ChatControl ? Well, not quite, but big news nevertheless! The Danish govt has told reporters that they plan to drop the Commission's proposed "Detection Orders" (mandates requiring chat and email providers to scan people's private communications, even if it breaks end-to-end encryption), due to a lack of political support. Having previously been fierce proponents of encryption-breaking mass scanning, this is a big change from Denmark. However, it DOESN'T mean....

A lot of people talking about the EU's #ChatControl bill, and rightly so. There are 2 really important votes coming up. As someone who has worked on it for 4 years (before the official proposal was even put forward) from a digital human rights perspective, here's a quick recap / informed source of what the heck is actually going on: - The European Commission put forward a proposal in 2022 to mass scan public and private communications, using AI, in case of people sharing abuse material; (1/x)