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Although a majority of voting Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) actually opposed the regulation (314 against, 276 in favor, 17 abstentions), the motion to reject it failed to secure the required absolute majority of 361 votes. As a result, mass scanning is now permitted again until 2028.
Sorry sweaty this is what democracy looks like
Quick someone propose Communism while they lack a quorum
… How is 314/607 not an absolute majority?! They’re just making shit up now.
Does this have anything to do with it?
Qualified majority is the voting system most frequently used in the Council, with about 80% of all EU legislation adopted through it.
This is because a qualified majority applies when the Council takes decisions under the ordinary legislative procedure, which is the primary decision-making process for adopting EU laws.
When the Council reaches a qualified majority, an EU legislative act is adopted. When is the qualified majority reached? A qualified majority is reached if two conditions are simultaneously met:- at least 55% of member states vote in favour (15 out of 27)
- those member states represent at least 65% of the total EU population This procedure is also known as the ‘double-majority rule’.
I’m guessing the reality is that “absolute majority” isn’t the actual standard and the journalist mistakenly used the wrong term, yes.
Lol they semver’d the mass surveillance legislation. I can’t wait for Chat Control 6.7 to patch out all the remaining loopholes and enshittify.
Doesn’t affect email (broken by design w/o extensions), or truly E2EE protocols such as Signal or XMPP with OMEMO/GPG extension, but it’s going to net in all the people they wanted to net in anyway.
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
