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‘Danger to Democracy’: 500+ Top Scientists Urge EU Governments to Reject ‘Technically Infeasible’ Chat Control (www.patrick-breyer.de)
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Over 500 of the world’s leading cryptographers, security researchers, and scientists from 34 countries have today delivered a devastating verdict on the EU’s proposed “Chat Control” regulation. An open letter published this morning declares the plan to mass-scan private messages is “technically infeasible,” a “danger to democracy,” and will “completely undermine” the security and privacy of all European citizens.

Continue reading here.. https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/danger-to-democracy-500-top-scientists-urge-eu-governments-to-reject-technically-infeasible-chat-control/

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[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ, this is still a terrible idea. I'm not from the EU, how many countries have to vote against it to stop it? Is it still feasible?

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Just need Germany to go against again, they were against a few weeks ago and changed to undecided for w/e fucking reason

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is it based on population, or is one country one vote?

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I think its based on their reps but I recommend searching for that info yourself, I dont know much haha

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 points 2 months ago

it would even be enough for germany to abstain from voting. I don't understand that either btw, but i don't understand any nation which says yes to this bullshit, because the european court of justice has spoken very clear words when they judged that this crap is against human rights.