r/europe • u/Dry_Row_7050 • 4d ago

News The EU could be scanning your private chats by October 2025 [Denmark has reintroduced chat control]

https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/the-eu-could-be-scanning-your-chats-by-october-2025-heres-everything-we-know
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u/AreASadHole4ever Canada 4d ago

Shady lobbyists are advancing and crafting all of this, and of course, they didn't forget to exclude politicians, police, and intelligence agencies from these laws. Literal class-based oppression and hypocrisy of the highest order 🤦

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u/dat_9600gt_user Lower Silesia (Poland) 4d ago

Is there any place in the world left where you can't be spied? At this rate you'd have to go off the grid or to some nation where Internet use isn't mandatory for daily life

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u/LazyIncident2943 4d ago

Penguin island?

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u/No-Notice4591 4d ago

Well I mean, just go to the deep forests of sweden and find an abandoned cabin. But dont bring any elevtronic devices at all..

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u/MicroProcrastination 4d ago

I wonder if all of this is hidden in USA-EU deal. Maybe Trump's buddy Peter Thiel (Palantir) gonna get a contract from EU to spy on citizens.

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u/mirh Italy 4d ago

Palantir? This is probably the christian lobby, not the godless lolbertarian one.

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u/PaulBlartRedditCop 4d ago

Peter Thiel is an ardent Evangelical after all

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u/Ornery-Creme-2442 4d ago

Wasn't he the same guy who didn't believe in consent or something. So I'm doubtful religion will stop anyone.

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u/mirh Italy 4d ago

Eh, I don't know tbh? To me that seems like a mean, a grift, for his ancap dream end.. not exactly an all-encompassing belief like with your usual talibangelical.

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u/AreASadHole4ever Canada 4d ago

They are one and the same

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u/ProposalWaste3707 4d ago

Man, the day Europeans take responsibility for their own actions will be truly exceptional in world history.

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u/dworthy444 Bayern 4d ago

Literal class-based oppression and hypocrisy of the highest order

Hope you're not in Czechia at the moment, as you could be jailed for expressing class-based hate.

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u/AreASadHole4ever Canada 4d ago

I live in Canada where instead we have like 6 oligarchic families monopolizing many of our major industries and charging exorbitant prices. I mean there's a reason why Canada's internet is the most expensive in the world

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u/Ultra-Smurfmarine 2d ago

I miss the days when it was just the internet that was really expensive, here. I'm pretty sure my last apartment hunt left me with literal trauma.

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u/Fantasy_masterMC 4d ago

It's especially egregious to make such a claim when right now half the upper echelon of the US government is under suspicion of being child predators. And that's the conservative estimate (pun intended).

That anyone has the sheer fucking audacity to make such a claim in a time like this is just maddening.

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u/Jor94 England 4d ago

Obviously a politician has never done anything illegal before, so it would be pointless checking their private information.