📢 The EU Parliament will not be moving forward with chat control! The indiscriminate mass surveillance measures have been removed and secure end-to-end encryption will not be compromised! 🥳
🇬🇧 Amazing news from the European Parliament: 💥 Parliament negotiators have agreed to aim for stoppig #chatcontrol and guaranteeing secure encryption! Let’s not relent now...
The attack on encryption in Europe is very real. We obtained a leaked document from the EU showing Spanish officials want to ban end-to-end encryption.
Beyond this, the document shows the views of 20 countries on encryption, and how it relates to a controversial proposed law that would allow companies to scan people's chats to hunt for child sexual abuse material.
The majority said they are in favour of some form of scanning of encrypted messages.
The document also reveals that a lot of countries don't appear to know how end-to-end encryption works, with many proposals being technically infeasible.
#YlvaJohansson's department specifically targeted people in member states that had been critical of her proposal but excluded people who are likely to value #privacy.
Turns out that the whole "protect children online" alliance is basically an AI startup, Europol and a funder-investor in a trench coat. Thanks for trying to destroy the internet, you raccoons.
This afternoon, Members of the European Parliament in the 'civil liberties' committee will have a chance to scrutinise EU Home Affairs Commissioner Johansson about alleged conflicts of interest and illegal advertising in relation to the #CSAR aka #ChatControl bill.
This is incredibly important not just for the CSA Reg, but also broader questions about EU democracy, rule of law, and whether or not lawmakers will accept attempts to influence and even undermine the legislative process... 🧵
🇬🇧 Worrying! Internal minutes reveal that numerous EU states want to pass indiscriminate #Chatcontrol#CSAM#MassSurveillance legislation in just two weeks. Protest now!
This is wild: The #Chatcontrol#CSAM proposal, "the most criticised EU law touching on tech in the last decade, is the product of the #lobby of private corporations and law enforcement."
🇬🇧 Concerning her #ChatControl#MassSurveillance scheme, EU Commissioner @YlvaJohansson is acting as a double agent of international tech corporations, law enforcement and big money.
🇬🇧The leaked #ChatControl proposal from the Belgian Council Presidency which will be discussed today reveals: The EU Commission’s extreme #ChatControl bill is alive. Our fight against this attack on digital privacy of correspondence continues!
Undermining the EU's democratic process is not "standard normal practice" ❌
Together with other specialist NGOs, we call on President #VonDerLeyen to investigate allegations of conflicts of interest, undue lobby influence and ad micro-targeting by EU Commission's home affairs unit.
🇩🇪 Meilenstein für Transparenz und Pressefreiheit: Britischer High Court lässt die Berufung von Wikileaks-Gründer Julian #Assange gegen seine Auslieferung an die USA zu, weil zweifelhaft ist, ob seine Meinungsfreiheit in den USA überhaupt geschützt ist.
Die heutige Gerichtsentscheidung gibt Hoffnung, dass europäische Menschenrechte und Gerichte die Aufdeckung von Unrecht, Machtmissbrauch, Korruption und Kriegsverbrechen schützen, ohne Freund und Feind mit zweierlei Maßstäben zu messen. Ich wünsche mir, dass aus der von den USA gewollten Abschreckung von Whistleblowern und Journalisten weltweit ihre Ermutigung durch ein Grundsatzurteil wird.
Gleich um 15 Uhr veranstalte ich ein Webinar mit Rechtsanwalt Sören Schomburg aus Assanges Verteidigungsteam und Marie Wasilewski als Sprecherin des Aktivistenbündnisses FreeAssange.EU, um über die Gerichtsentscheidung und die nächsten Schritte zu sprechen - schaut zu! https://peertube.european-pirates.eu/w/qJosg7swHC3qRTvtJX1U2s
🇬🇧The British High Court today allowed Wikileaks founder Julian #Assange's appeal against his extradition to the US. This decision gives hope that European human rights and courts will protect the exposure of injustice, abuses of power, corruption and war crimes without applying double standards to friend and foe. I hope that instead of deterring whistleblowers and journalists worldwide, as intended by the USA, they will be encouraged by the US changing its mind, or a landmark judgement at the end of proceedings.
The fact that EU Commission President von der Leyen remains silent on the case is shameful, but indicative of the mother of #chatcontrol plans, who wants to keep her own official text messages with pharmaceutical companies secret. For me as a Pirate, #transparency of government action is the indispensable basis of any democracy.