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Chatcontrol: European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communications
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this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2021
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I was unaware of this, what? How can something like this pass with 78% of people being against? A very important step was taken with the GDPR, but now we are going to back away in an utter U-turn? I'm very disappointed and concerned about this... What can we do to somehow prevent the second phase (or even revert this)?
This seems to be the boiling frog technique :)
The the 78% against is of course a very leading question.
A proponent of the law would have probably asked: "do you think Whatsapp should be allowed to search their servers for child-porn and report it to the police if found?", which would probably result in 78% approval.
But of course this story is a bit more complex with unintended or maybe intended but not openly stated consequences.
Yeah I see your point, it makes sense.