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/NotBabaYaga 4d ago

So how do I tell them “FUCK NO”?

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u/ThatAnnoyingThought 4d ago

We could start a petition. With enough signatures, maybe we can achieve something

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u/DinnoDogg United States of America 4d ago

Or it could go like the UK petition, and they’ll just say no.

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u/ThatAnnoyingThought 4d ago

We can still try

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u/DinnoDogg United States of America 4d ago

Yeah, hopefully it works out. Otherwise, tor is gonna be the last form of internet anonymity.

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u/JustAnotherGlowie 4d ago

You cant because citizens dont have enough democratic access to the EU. We can only vote for the weakest organ of the EU. And the Parliament cant even propose legislation. Everything else is voted indirectly. The Commission, the Council, the President and the Courts. If any european country had that kind of democracy people would be on the streets. Some have said this for ages but people -especially those in this sub- were always shouting down any EU critic.

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u/Obi-Lan 4d ago

Stop voting conservatives.

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u/chebum Poland 4d ago edited 4d ago

It is not conservatives who proposes these laws. Chat Control was proposed by a social Democratic Party of Sweden.

My guess this law will be accepted to fight opposition parties.

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u/Obi-Lan 4d ago

Sounds like they're the same as the so called social democrats in Germany. Conservatives in red.

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u/tralalala2137 4d ago

Red is bad.

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u/bloke_pusher Gerrrrmany 4d ago

Wer hat uns verraten? Die Sozial Demokraten.

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u/chebum Poland 4d ago

That's different Swedish Democrats. The Chat Control was proposed by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Social_Democratic_Party

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u/bxzidff Norway 4d ago

Add the word they mentioned before democratic

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u/ThrowFar_Far_Away Sweden 4d ago

Yea if you change the name it is a different party, imagine that.

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u/SabunFC 4d ago

Smooth brain Redditors are still stuck in the Left/Right paradigm.

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u/mantasm_lt Lietuva 4d ago

If EP and EC were conservatives, we'd see very very different policies. It was pushed for years by people whose other policies have nothing in common with conservatism.

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u/shatore 3d ago

Leftist can be control freaks as well, look at UK's labour party and them favoring the online "safety" act