Digital freedom fighter exposes disinformation campaign to break resistance to "Chat Control 2.0," highlights hypocritical exemption for police and military as EU Council vote hangs in the balance. In a desperate maneuver to force through the controversial "Chat Control 2.0" regulation (officiall| Patrick Breyer
Over 500 of the world’s leading cryptographers, security researchers, and scientists from 34 countries have today delivered a devastating verdict on the EU’s proposed “Chat Control” regulation. An open letter…| Patrick Breyer
The outgoing EU Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly, has ruled in response to a complaint by former Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer that it constitutes “maladministration” for Europol to have green-lighted an …| Patrick Breyer
As early as tomorrow morning, a majority of EU governments could endorse the controversial draft law on chat control, which had been removed from the agenda in June after massive …| Patrick Breyer
Tomorrow (Thursday) EU governments are to vote on a bill (officially called “child sexual abuse regulation” but known as “chat control”) that would require automated searches in and disclosure of private chats, including end-to-end encrypted chats, that might contain illegal photos or videos.[1] If| Patrick Breyer
Poland, currently presiding over the EU Council, proposes a major change to the much-criticised EU chat control proposal to search all private chats for suspicious content, even at the cost of destroying secure end-to-end encryption: Instead of mandating the general monitoring of private chats („det| Patrick Breyer
Chat control is back on the agenda of EU governments. EU governments are to express their position on the latest proposal on 23 September. EU Ministers of the Interior are to adopt the proposal on 10/11 October. Latest update of 12 September... In June we managed to stop the unprecedented plan by| Patrick Breyer
Today EU governments will not adopt their position on the EU regulation on “combating child sexual abuse”, the so-called chat control regulation, as planned, which would have heralded the end of private messages and secure encryption. The Belgian Council presidency postponed the vote at short notice| Patrick Breyer