2026-07-06 14:43 UTC
2/4 🔎 This law would allow #BigTech companies like Microsoft and Meta to mass scan their users’ private messages to search for child abuse material. Despite the important aim to protect children, EDRi and many legal experts have argued that scanning everyone’s messages – rather than just those reasonably suspected of serious criminal acts – is a violation of everyone’s communications confidentiality and fundamental rights.
Why is the upcoming THIRD vote this week concerning?... 🧵
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@edri@eupolicy.social 2026-07-06 14:43
3/4 ⚠️ If the interim derogation is voted through, voluntary mass scanning by Big Tech platforms becomes legal - with no need for a warrant, little to no oversight, and with no legal basis, on millions of conversations. ⚠️ The outcome of the vote on "#ChatControl 1.0" will either strengthen or undermine the Parliament's position on the #CSARegulation - which has so-far protected encryption and rejected mandatory mass surveillance of private.