Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: chat control

Some day Civil Society must grapple with whether platforms can differentiate markets on the basis of delivering Privacy & Security features

2026/06/10
[Europe] voted today to end chat monitoring 1.0. This ends an exception that was used, in particular, by US Big Tech companies to monitor billions of people’s private messages without suspicion

2026/03/26
MEPs block tech firms from scanning for child sexual abuse material | POLITICO

2026/03/26
Remember that big win on ChatControl a couple of weeks ago? It turns out they didn’t like the result and they want to vote on it again, TODAY. Sorry.

2026/03/26
BREAKING: Cloudflare once again finds enough spine to publicly combat calls for censorship & state control, although on from past experience we can only wonder how long it will last

2026/01/09
Privacy will be under unprecedented attack in 2026 | Computer Weekly

2026/01/07
Mullvad: “The [EU] lost the Chat Control 2.0 battle […in] 2026, they will be back with their next attempt: Going Dark. This time some EU member states want to include VPN services”

2025/12/19
EU Revives Plan for Year-Long Online Data Retention | Reclaim the Net

2025/12/12
ReclaimTheNet: “ChatControl was meant to be temporary, the promotion of mass scanning of private messages until data proved it worked. The data never came.”

2025/12/04
EFF: “After Years of Controversy, the EU’s Chat Control Nears Its Final Hurdle: What to Know”

2025/12/04
Mullvad” “An important victory – but we still need to stop Chat Control”

2025/11/27
Interesting to compare and contrast EU attempts to force chat control, with failed Australian attempt at the same from 2024:

2025/11/19