The proposal of a controversial European Union is dubbing “chat control”, re -achieving speed, 19 out of 27 EU members allegedly support Masyor.
The scheme will compulsory messaging platforms including WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram to scan every message, photo and video Sen by users starting in October, even though the end-and-enterian place will be in place, the popular French Tech Blogger Korben wrote on Monday.
Denmark re -presented the proposal on 1 July on the first day of the President of its European Union Council. France, protested, now in favor, Korben said, cited Patrick Breare, former European Parliament for Germany and European Pirate Party.
Belgian, Hungary, Sweden, Italy and Spain are also on the side, which remains unspecified Germany. However, if the Berlin connects by the majority, a qualified council can push the vote
A qualified majority in the European Union Council first, at least 55 percent of the member states, which means 15 out of 27, should vote in favor. Second, those counties should represent at 65% of the total population of the European Union.
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Pre-encryption scanning on equipment
For wear, the plan tries to implemented client-side scanning, which means that the material embedded in users that inspects the materials, inspects the material. “A little bit if the post office came to read all your letters in your life, then you put them in the envelope,” Korben said.
He said that real goals are not criminals, who use encrypted or decentralized channels, but general users who are private guilty will now open for algorithm probes.
The proposal cites the prevention of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) as its justification. However, this will result in large -scale monitoring through the end of the complete automatic real -time monitoring of messaging and chat and the end of the confidentiality of digital corners, “wrote by bare.
Beyond scanning, the package involves compulsory age verification, effectively removing oblivion from the messaging platform. Digital freedom groups are asking citizens to contact their MEPs, signing petitions and push back before the law becomes irreversible.
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Last month, Telegram founder Pavel Durov warned that France has put social decline at risk if it continues a route to political censorship and regulatory overache. Durov was arched in France in August 2024, causing facial faces to modify his app to reduce criminality.
He also said that French intelligence officials had approached him earlier this year, in which the supporters of the May 2025 were needed to censors the content-militant material, a request he said that he refused.
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