The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of …
It never died. It also never even got to parliament. It got bounced back by the council (i.e. a council representing the states governmebts) because enough of the states said "no way this is even worth discussing. So it went back into the working group to come back with a new proposal. It keeps bouncing up sometimes in a better state, sometimes in a derangedly bad one like the current proposal.
Basically as long as people who understand how bad that stuff is for privacy are outnumbered by people who believe that online pedo rings are a major societal issue… It’ll keep coming back and have to be pushed back over and over.
It never died. It also never even got to parliament. It got bounced back by the council (i.e. a council representing the states governmebts) because enough of the states said "no way this is even worth discussing. So it went back into the working group to come back with a new proposal. It keeps bouncing up sometimes in a better state, sometimes in a derangedly bad one like the current proposal.
Basically as long as people who understand how bad that stuff is for privacy are outnumbered by people who believe that online pedo rings are a major societal issue… It’ll keep coming back and have to be pushed back over and over.