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1/3 🎉 Today, Members of the European Parliament held strong in their rejection of #MassSurveillance in the ePrivacy derogation (sometimes called #ChatControl 1.0)!

In case you missed it, the Parliament took an unprecedented do-over vote on their position on the ePrivacy derogation today after days of shocking developments... 🧵

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EDRi 2d ago

2/3 🚨 Conservatives in the Parliament pushed for a second vote after being unhappy with the original vote's outcome. Their solution: ignore democratic agreement, just vote again till they get a favourable outcome!

🚨 Earlier negotiations fell apart because EU Member States (Council) would not make any meaningful concessions to the Parliament's balanced and proportionate position. Instead, they chose to pretend it's the Parliament's fault. Read more about this: https://netzpolitik.org/2026/verlaengerung-der-ausnahmeregelung-rat-liess-chatkontrolle-verhandlungen-sehenden-auges-scheitern/

Verlängerung der Ausnahmeregelung: Rat ließ Chatkontrolle-Verhandlungen sehenden Auges scheitern

Die EU-Mitgliedstaaten gingen schon vor den Verhandlungen zur Verlängerung der freiwilligen Chatkontrolle mit dem EU-Parlament von einem Scheitern aus. Man wollte keine Kompromisse und fürchtet Vorfestlegungen für die Verhandlungen zur permanenten Chatkontrolle. Das zeigen eingestufte Protokolle, die wir im Volltext veröffentlichen.

netzpolitik.org

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EDRi 2d ago

3/3 🚨 With the Parliament still unconvinced, four EU Commissioners decided to interfere, trying to pressure MEPs to support their mass surveillance proposal, even promoting the interests of #BigTech companies like Google, Meta and Snapchat!

Despite this blatant attempt to cow the Parliament into abandoning their position, MEPs held strong and continued to reject the mass scanning of our private communications 👏🏽

This is the democratic accountability we expect and deserve from our lawmakers!

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@edri 🎉🎉🎉