lemoncookiechip2d ago

European Parliament decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop

https://bsky.app/profile/tuta.com/post/3mhxkfowv322c

Tuta (@tuta.com)

You did it! 🥳 European Parliament just decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop. This means on April 6, 2026, Gmail, LinkedIn, Microsoft and other Big Techs must stop scanning your private messages in the EU. #PrivacyWins 💪 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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> This means on April 6, 2026, Gmail, LinkedIn, Microsoft and other Big Techs must stop scanning your private messages in the EU

It had already passed and started?

Mar 26 at 1:17pmWeb
Show threadnickslaughter022d ago
Yes, voluntary Chat Control 1.0 has been running since 2021.
Show threadSiempreViernes2d ago
Well, chat control 1.0 is about making an existing practice legal, it didn't create the practice of scanning messages for know child sexual abuse material, though I don't know how long that has been going on before the legislation in 2021 passed (but probably for several years at that point, since getting a new law trough takes a while).
Show threadisodev2d ago
Of course, remember Apple championed the idea with iMessage scanning which at the time produced A LOT of discussion e.g. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/2021-we-told-apple-don...
In 2021, We Told Apple: Don't Scan Our Phones

Strong encryption provides privacy and security for everyone online. We can’t have private conversations, or safe transactions, without it. Encryption is critical to democratic politics and reliable economic transactions around the world. When a company rolls back its existing commitments to...

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Show threadlayer82d ago
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2021/1232/oj/eng
L_2021274EN.01004101.xml

Show threadvaylian1d ago

> It had already passed and started?

Facebook and others have been scanning your private messages for many years already. Then someone discovered that this practice is illegal in Europe. So they passed the temporary chat control 1.0 emergency law to make it legal. The plan was to draft a chat control 2.0 law that would then be the long-term solution. But negotiations took too long and the temporary law will expire on the 4th of April (not the 6th) which means that it will be illegal again for Facebook and others to scan the private messages of European citizens without prior suspicion of any wrongdoing.

Show threadfh9731d ago
Gmail and likely others have been scanning at least emails for child pornography since the 2010s.