@nlupo I've actually contacted some of my representatives back in August stating that I oppose this legislation. They basically said that they don't have an opinion on this legislation, but they're monitoring it.

Sadly they all abstained from voting, and I'm not sure they were even in the parliament to vote. But considering that the amendment passed by a single vote, I'll never underestimate the impact a single person can have on politics.

Next time, I might even call my representatives 

@nlupo It's a bit complicated, but basically, back in 2022, tech companies got permission from the EU to scan private communications for child porn, AKA "Chat Control 1.0".

Based on this, the Danes wanted to implement legislation in 2025 that would've mandated scanning for CP, AKA "Chat Control 2.0".

After that, there was a bunch of legislative clusterfuckery for mandatory scanning, but it never got anywhere, and then the Danish presidency ended.

And then suddenly, the EU parliament refused to extend 1.0, which sent people scrambling to salvage it, and the EPP wanted a second vote on it, which happened yesterday.

An amendment was passed by a single vote, which limited detection to "known CSAM" (meaning that new content cannot be detected, so using AI/ML is not allowed). This meant that the final proposal to extend 1.0 failed overwhelmingly, so on April 4, it'll expire.

More about yesterday's vote here:
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/end-of-chat-control-eu-parliament-stops-mass-surveillance-in-voting-thriller-paving-the-way-for-genuine-child-protection/