In a major breakthrough for the digital rights movement, the German government has refused to back the EU's controversial Chat Control regulation yesterday after facing massive public pressure. The government did not take a position on the proposal. This blocks the required majority in the EU Counci| Patrick Breyer
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
The following letter by Members of Parliament from across the EU has been sent today (and is still open for signatures): Dear Council of the European Union, Dear national governments, In the last days of the Belgian EU Council Presidency, Belgium has put forward its final initiative to reach| 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
Highly controversial, non-transparent and rarely questioned: the Commission and Council of the European Union are currently preparing a new, EU-wide digital surveillance package. The plan includes the reintroduction and expansion of …| 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
At the request of Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer, EU Internal Market Commissioner Breton has commented on manufacturers who equip their products with “kill switches”. This question was prompted by …| 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
A great majority of EU citizens oppose the EU‘s plans for blanket messaging and chat control. This is the result of an opinion poll conducted by YouGov among 10,265 citizens from 10 EU countries. In search of “child pornography”, the EU wants to have the content of all private digital communicati| Patrick Breyer
On Monday a new version of the globally unprecedented EU bill aimed at searching all private messages and chats for suspicious content (so-called chat control or child sexual abuse regulation) was circulated and leaked by POLITICO soon after. According to the latest proposal providers would be free| 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
[Update: Vote has been postponed to Thursday, keep up the pressure!] The Belgian EU Council presidency seems set to have bulk Chat Control searches of our private communications greenlighted by EU governments on Wednesday 19 Thursday 20 June. This confirms concerns that the proponents of Chat Con| Patrick Breyer
The highly controversial indiscriminate child sexual abuse regulation (so-called chat control) could still be endorsed by EU governments after all, as France could give up its previous veto. This is reported by Euractiv and confirmed by internal documents. France considers the new "upload moderation| Patrick Breyer
🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0 🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇳🇱 Dutch: Chatcontrole The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence Take action to stop Chat Control now! The Chat Control 2.0 proposal in detail Changes proposed by the European Parliament| Patrick Breyer
