EU apparatchiks aim to sneak a terrifying mass surveillance measure into law despite UNIVERSAL public opposition (no thinking person wants this) by INVENTING A NEW WORD for it—"upload moderation"—and hoping no one learns what it means until it's too late. Stop them, Europe!

The Belgian version of chat control is nothing but mass surveillance. It’s what the Going Dark initiative call “setting the right narrative”. But the consequences are the same. It’s client-side scanning (state spyware in your phone) of European citizens’ private communication.

Anti encryption legislation undermines basic digital privacy.

🇬🇧Dirty tricks around tomorrow's #ChatControl showdown vote? Several critical governments are discussing whether to oppose or to abstain. If the Belgian presidency tomorrow only ask which governments are opposed, silence could be counted as approving! patrick-breyer.de/en/council-to-…

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More (US) coverage of Europe’s plan to scan all private, encrypted messages. apple.news/AOl1yIXrtRISFL…

"The fact that the EU interior ministers want to exempt police officers, soldiers, intelligence officers and even themselves from chat control scanning proves that they know exactly just how unreliable and dangerous the snooping algorithms are that they want to unleash on us

Respectfully, your proposal does break encryption. I am happy to spend as much time as you need reviewing in as much detail as you are comfortable with exactly how it breaks encryption, and why this is so dangerous.

Scanning everyone's private messages breaks encryption. It’s dangerous and would weaken online safety for billions of people around the world.

It's great to see countries in the EU taking a stand against a proposal that would mandate the scanning of everyone's personal messages.  Scanning everyone's messages would weaken the security billions of people rely on to keep them safe online. And, as 350+ technical experts

This ruling is a huge win for privacy. We spent five years presenting our case because we firmly believe that spyware companies could not hide behind immunity or avoid accountability for their unlawful actions. Surveillance companies should be on notice that illegal spying will

BREAKING: NSO Group liable for #Pegasus hacking of WhatsApp users. Big win for spyware victims. Big loss for NSO. Bad time to be a spyware company. Landmark case. Huge implications. 1/ 🧵

This is really important. If the UK forces a global backdoor into Apple’s security, it will make everyone in every country less safe. One country’s secret order risks putting all of us in danger and it should be stopped.

Encryption is absolutely critical for keeping people safe, and governments should encourage it. Banning encryption is a dangerous gift to hackers and hostile foreign governments.

BREAKING: jury awards massive $167 million in punitive damages against spyware company NSO Group. Precedent-setting win against the notorious #Pegasus spyware maker. Congratulations to WhatsApp on sticking this case through since 2019. Some thoughts 1/