Today, the European Parliament allowed the suspicionless mass scanning of private communications ("Chat Control 1.0") to pass, a measure it had rejected twice in March. Although a majority of voting Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) actually opposed the regulation (314 against, 276 in favor,
can someone actually explain what the bill is doing, it looks like the primary complaint is the EU had no sovereignty over citizen data for investigating crimes, they had to beg the USA all the time for it and were constantly left on hold (so shocking that the USA doesnt help when some american targets kids). from what i can tell encryption isnt even singled out, they just want a chance at the data at all?
of course theyll use this to build their own local spyware apparatus, but who doesnt at this point? better than begging the USA for it. and obviously you see the american held internet staging a riot over this so that american corpos can keep doing what theyve been doing