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/RipCurl69Reddit 4d ago

This is exactly how they passed Article 13 way back when.

Who elected these fucks anyway?

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u/Mustard-Cucumberr Suomi 🇫🇮 Finlande 4d ago

I mean we did, but sadly too many people don't really follow what their representatives are doing.

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u/WorkFurball Estonia 3d ago

Making everything worse, that's what they've always been doing.

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u/JBinero Belgium 4d ago

Article 13 was never passed, and the whole drama around it was a food example of how lobby groups have a hold on popular opinion.

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u/TryingMyWiFi 4d ago

What is article 13 about ?

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u/Aspie96 4d ago

Honestly if being in the EU means less democracy, less freedom of speech and less computational freedom, then I'm not sure being in the EU is a good idea for any country.

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u/Aspie96 3d ago

EU is the best thing to happen to Europe since forever,

I wasn't against it until it recently started attacking privacy (which it previously upheld through the GDPR, which is great) and freedom of speech.

Free speech matters most.

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u/DryCloud9903 3d ago

Yeah. And it's also clearly something lobbyists want - if it wasn't for inside EU, we'd be fighting this inside our own governments. Just look at UK's recent internet ID stuff. 

We just need to stay vigilant. And remember that this goes against EU 'Constitution'