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Re:EU: Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharin... by izacus on Monday June 03, 2024 @05:01AM (#40560636)
A gentle reminder that this week we're voting in EU election so it's a great time to check who supports Chat Control and to vote accordingly.

The last attempts of this have been stopped by European Parliament so we need to make sure the new one stops it as well.

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Re:EU: Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharin... by mhitza on Monday June 03, 2024 @05:09AM (#40560678)
> A gentle reminder that this week we're voting in EU election so it's a great time to check who supports Chat Control and to vote accordingly.

Any idea where we can find that information (those who proposed and voted on it)?

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Re:EU: Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharin... by nickexyz on Monday June 03, 2024 @05:18AM (#40560734)
In Sweden we have this: https://chatcontrol.se/status/

Hopefully other EU countries has similar sites. If you have a local Pirate Party, that might be a good place to start. I'm guessing they would link such a site.

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Re:EU: Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharin... by izacus on Monday June 03, 2024 @05:34AM (#40560853)
The first proposal got rejected on the commitee stage, see https://edri.org/our-work/eu-parliament-committee-rejects-ma... and https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20231110IP...

The might be a list of votes there somewhere.

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Re:EU: Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharin... by scouw on Monday June 03, 2024 @06:25AM (#40561194)
Votes can be seen here (second page): https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/277893/Vote%20results...
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Re:EU: Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharin... by scouw on Monday June 03, 2024 @06:29AM (#40561224)
You can see who voted for "Amending Interim Regulation on a temporary derogation from certain provisions of the ePrivacy Directive" at https://mepwatch.eu/9/vote.html?v=167712, which from what I understand is about extending the duration an earlier version of chat control (1.0) [1] where the scanning is only done by tech companies on platforms such as Xbox and Facebook Messenger [2]. So not quite what is being talked about in the article in this post but definitely related.

[1]: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chatcontrol-1-0-pirates-con...

[2]: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/european-parliament-o-exten...

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Re:EU: Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharin... by throw46365 on Monday June 03, 2024 @05:20AM (#40560752)
It’s not, as I understand it, something that the European Parliament has even debated yet. Nobody in the Parliament has proposed or voted on it, unless I have misunderstood.

This measure is still being developed by the European Council, which is a non-legislative body.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Council

It would have to be submitted to and taken up by the Parliament for the information you want to exist in a meaningful form.

Parliament is not keen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_to_Prevent_and_Comb...

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Re:EU: Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharin... by surfingdino on Monday June 03, 2024 @05:08AM (#40560670)
They all do, even if they say they don't.
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Re:EU: Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharin... by pjerem on Monday June 03, 2024 @05:14AM (#40560708)
The parliament already rejected the first proposal so no, there are a lot of MEPs against this.
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Re:EU: Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharin... by izacus on Monday June 03, 2024 @05:20AM (#40560751)
I'm not sure why you spread this kind of crock when EUParl already stopped it once.
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