Mads B. CordesSep 14, 2025
yawnbox

a #ChatControl update (shared on the ISOC "Global Encryption Coalition" mailing list):

"The good news is that the blocking minority held. Members states raised concerns about privacy and cybersecurity as reasons for their opposition. Even countries that are officially in support of the proposal asked questions along these lines for the first time – showing that they are facing increased pressure back home.

The bad news is that #Denmark is moving forward even though they did not receive full support. They are keeping their plan to take this proposal to the Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting on October 14th.

After discussing with partners, we understand this as a strategy from Denmark. They are not making progress at the working level (the meeting today) and therefore will try directly at the political level (justice and home affairs). During these coming four weeks they will try to convince some of the blocking member states to reconsider their position.

What this means for us is that we need to keep up the pressure. We should be thanking the blocking countries for their position and encouraging the undecided or supportive countries to reconsider. We should keep up pressure in the media at the same time."

Sep 14, 2025 at 3:30pmWeb
Show threadMads B. CordesSep 14, 2025

@yawnbox as a Dane this concerns me quite a lot. If our politicians say they are in favour of democracy, they need to step up their game. They made such a fuss about it, when we got our (current and) first mixed ministers, some from both the left and right branches. Celebration how nice we are and what not. Then pulls off something like this?!

I cannot stand our current ones, and this is the last straw. This is what I feared.

I did my best reaching out to all our politicians, starting off the template from https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ and adding more on the topics I know about. Especially my concerns about NotPetya, which happened due to backdoors and led into multiple countries of the EU. A few answered, but honestly only the opposing parties... Awful customer service from the rest 😂

Of course I agree, we need stricter control with CSAM, but backdoors and moving back in the days with encryption **is not** the way to go about it.

What do we do? Anyone who has any ideas, what can we do? I'm lost 🙈

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

Show threadCascaCasca95Sep 15, 2025

@Mobilpadde @yawnbox

All we can do is add as mich pressure as we can to our coresponding MEP's (mine are representing Germany, the rest for french, serbia, denmark and so forth) either via mail, phone or other means.

As for the danish citizens, also make it known in your country that this is not okay by f.e. demonstrating in public, contacting press and/or politicans, using social media and IM's to warn everyone. That's the least I can offer as advice and I'll be on the lookout for more infos

Show threadWoefdramSep 14, 2025

@yawnbox Not only should we keep up the pressure, we should put more pressure on the countries that are in favour.

Let the people in those countries contact their governments and tell them it's not in anyone's interest to vote in favour of this monster.

Show threadTommaso GagliardoniSep 14, 2025
@hans @yawnbox I did my part 😉 https://infosec.exchange/@tomgag/115198034596797660
Tommaso Gagliardoni (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Did I just send 25 letters by recorded post to representatives of the Italian government, parliament, and EU institutions, speaking out against ChatControl? https://gagliardoni.net/#20250913_chatcontrol_letters Yes, it looks like I did. #chatcontrol #eu #privacy #surveillance #security #politics #cryptography

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Show threadWoefdramSep 14, 2025
@tomgag @yawnbox Sweet! 👏
Show threadLaurenz0071Oct 6
@yawnbox
https://fair.tube/w/72DCPMByyS1hoSg7gQFHXw
Here a good video explanation of the Max Plank Institute on how the technology of Chat Control works and what this would mean for digital communication within Europe.
Chat Control & Client-Side-Scanning - Video by the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy

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