Chatcontrol European Parliament Approves Mass Surveillance of Private Communications - Patrick Breyer

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Patrick Breyer
CHATCONTROL: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES MASS SURVEIL-

LANCE OF PRIVATE COMMUNICATIONS
6/JULY/2021  37
Today, the European Parliament approved the ePrivacy Derogation, allowing providers of
e-mail and messaging services to automatically search all personal messages of each
citizen for presumed suspect content and report suspected cases to the police. The
European Pirates Delegation in the Greens/EFA group strongly condemns this automated
mass surveillance, which e�ectively means the end of privacy in digital correspondence.
Pirate Party MEPs plan to take legal action.
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cases, innocent citizens come under suspicion of having committed an o�ence due to
unreliable processes. In a recent representative poll, 72% of EU citizens opposed general
monitoring of their messages.[2] While providers will initially have a choice to search or
not to search communications, follow-up legislation, expected in autumn, is to oblige all
communications service providers to indiscriminate screening.
Breyer: “This harms children rather than protecting them”
German Pirate Party Member of the European Parliament Patrick Breyer, shadow
rapporteur on the legislative proposal, comments:
“The adoption of the first ever EU regulation on mass surveillance is a

sad day for all those who rely on free and confidential communications
and advice, including abuse victims and press sources. The regulation
deals a death blow to the confidentiality of digital correspondence. It is a
general breach of the dam to permit indiscriminate surveillance of
private spaces by corporations – by this totalitarian logic, our post, our
smartphones or our bedrooms could also be generally monitored.
Unleashing such denunciation machines on us is ine�ective, illegal and
irresponsible.
Indiscriminate searches will not protect children and even endanger

them by exposing their private photos to unknown persons, and by
criminalising children themselves. Already overburdened investigators
are kept busy with having to sort out thousands of criminally irrelevant
messages. The victims of such a terrible crime as child sexual abuse
deserve measures that prevent abuse in the first place. The right
approach would be, for example, to intensify undercover investigations
into child porn rings and reduce of the years-long processing backlogs in
searches and evaluations of seized data.“
Pirates plan legal action against the regulation
The EU’s plans for chat control have been confirmed to violate fundamental rights by a
former judge of the European Court of Justice.[3] Patrick Breyer plans to take legal action
against the regulation and is looking for victims of abuse who would file such a
complainant. „Abuse victims are particularly harmed by this mass surveillance“, explains
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taken away from them, which will prevent victims from seeking help and support.“
The European Commission has already announced a follow-up regulation to make chat
control mandatory for all email and messaging providers. Previously secure end-to-end
encrypted messenger services such as Whatsapp or Signal would be forced to install a
backdoor. There is a considerable backlash against these plans: A public consultation
carried out by the EU Commission revealed that 51% of all respondents oppose chat
control for e-mail and messaging providers. 80% of respondents do not want chat control
to be applied to encrypted messages. [4] Due to the resistance, EU Commissioner for
Home A�airs Ylva Johannson has postponed the proposal until September 2021.
More Information on Chatcontrol: www.chatcontrol.eu (http://www.chatcontrol.eu/)
[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-9-2021-07-06-RCV_FR.docx
(https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-9-2021-07-06-RCV_FR.docx)
[2] https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/poll-72-of-citizens-oppose-eu-plans-to-search-
all-private-messages-for-allegedly-illegal-material-and-report-to-the-police/
(https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/poll-72-of-citizens-oppose-eu-plans-to-search-all-
private-messages-for-allegedly-illegal-material-and-report-to-the-police/)
[3] https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Legal-Opinion-
Screening-for-child-pornography-2021-03-04.pdf (https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-
content/uploads/2021/03/Legal-Opinion-Screening-for-child-pornography-
2021-03-04.pdf)
[4] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12726-
Child-sexual-abuse-online-detection-removal-and-reporting-/public-consultation_de
(https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12726-Child-
sexual-abuse-online-detection-removal-and-reporting-/public-consultation_de)
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P R O V E S M A S S S U R V E I L L A N C E O F P R I VAT E C O M M U N I C AT I O N S ”
Anonymous
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royale von cheese

7/July/2021 at 00:45
does SNCB still have pics of missing kids in the trams? (at least, dozens per year).
Where is Dutroux now?
Which are harder to catch, terrorists or pedophiles?
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Anonymous
7/July/2021 at 08:22
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/votes.html?tab=votes
(https://www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/votes.html?tab=votes)
Tuesday, 6 July 2021 / Roll-call votes
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Dries De Decker
7/July/2021 at 11:49
Page 8 of this document: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document
/PV-9-2021-07-06-RCV_FR.docx (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document
/PV-9-2021-07-06-RCV_FR.docx)
537 in favor
133 against
The Le� and the Greens were almost entirely against, the non-attached members were
divided, other fractions were almost entirely in favor.
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Dries De Decker
7/July/2021 at 11:54
First link under the blog post, page 8.
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This will not backfire at all..
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Anonymous
7/July/2021 at 01:08
What if the post o�ce was tasked to read all letters. This is not a step in the right
direction. You are presumed to be guilty until proven innocent
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ramon
8/July/2021 at 21:36
I guess we shouls start chatting on paper letters, this would be a new pricacy service, I
think they would need trillion people to read all letters. They want to be carbon neutral?
Then fuck this Spying law with the fake excuse of child protection. It was set up from the
beginning so they can legally spy everyone s lives. Who knows who is going to be behind
the screens monitoring our privatec conversations, probably the NSA, CIA, INTERPOL,
who are full of infiltrated criminals!!!! We cant let these stalinistic nostalgic sociopaths
rule our lives!
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Anonymous
13/July/2021 at 14:25
PGP
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Ibram K.
7/July/2021 at 01:34
How likely is it that this will be mandated?
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Anonymous
7/July/2021 at 03:33
Matrix + Email-encryption era is coming.
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yeah blockchain based decentralised run by the people , with a community voting
system.
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Rick Sanchez
7/July/2021 at 08:33
Welcome to the Republics of the Union of European Socialist Republics.
George Orwell like it!
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Anonymous
7/July/2021 at 10:27
Having providers open up secure pipelines in combination with all of the supply chain
hacks going on isn’t going to backfire at all (yes sarcasm) I wonder how long it’s going to
take for all of the EU parlement private messages to end up for sale on the web….
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Pako Schmacko
7/July/2021 at 11:34
So basically we are entering the tyranny state? All of our private communications being
monitored? What kind of satan came up with that idea? What next, mandatory anal
probing to see if we don’t carry drugs or child pornography there “just in case”? EU is
going to be a really sad, scary place, soon.
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hayek
8/July/2021 at 08:58
This was always going to happen.
Centralisation of power is BAD
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AMG
7/July/2021 at 15:18
In diesem Kommentar geht es um das Motiv von Gesetzesinitiativen wie dieser aus einem
Artikel von J.S. Nelson nannte Management und Kultur.
Es umfasst grenzenlose Überwachung durch Regierung und Management.
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Beziehungen der Arbeitnehmer zu bewerten, ihre Gespräche zu studieren, Daten über

ihre Gesundheit zu sammeln, zu verfolgen, wohin sie am Arbeitsplatz und außerhalb des
Arbeitsplatzes reisen, sowie ihre emotionalen Reaktionen zu überwachen und zu
manipulieren. Viele dieser Überschreitungen werden im Namen der
Unternehmenskontrolle gerechtfertigt. Diese Begründung sollte uns beunruhigen…”
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16wE3wbbdKjdB2x1ZMc1SuPHP9cuJiXGL
/view?usp=sharing (https://drive.google.com/file/d
/16wE3wbbdKjdB2x1ZMc1SuPHP9cuJiXGL/view?usp=sharing)
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anon999
7/July/2021 at 20:20
I’m gonna say it.
we all know who is doing this kind of laws. a certain type of people, who is in power, and
afraid they get exposed. I won’t say the word, but we all know who it is, who is in control
of the media; politics and everything.
“To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
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Scorpene
8/July/2021 at 02:04
First Orban uses the child abuse narrative to explicitly undermine gay rights in his
country. Now the EU uses the same narrative to outright destroy free speech (what is le�
of it in the EU anyway) and privacy by passing laws that one wouldn’t believe they are not
from an Orwell novel were it not for the history of them having taken several steps into
that direction already.
Is there any realistic chance that this doesn’t go into e�ect, for instance, due to violating
fundamental EU rights?
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hayek
8/July/2021 at 09:12
‘fundamental rights’?
You made me chuckle.
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Derp
8/July/2021 at 08:41
I am always amazed the lengths Narcissists and Psychopaths will go to in an attempt to
impose social dominance. Meanwhile, real predators will be using more underground
services as whistleblowers and journalists will be hunted.
Its quite obvious what they are up to. Now what happens when a totalitarian leader
comes along?
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Michael
8/July/2021 at 17:11
What I find most appalling is that the EU just makes these decisions for all of us. Most
people didn’t even know about the vote. News (national media) did not report on it.
Disgusting practices. Is there anywhere in the world where one can just live in piece
without strangers invading their lives?
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Anonymous
13/July/2021 at 14:30
It’s called ANTARTIDA
Penguins are good neighbors
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Paul
8/July/2021 at 17:59
Just switch to delta.chat.
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Anonymous
11/July/2021 at 07:56
I tried delta.chat, but it does not work very well on Linux. Also, extreme message delays
are common.
My personal experience is better with Jabber/XMPP, e.g. with Dino on Linux (and
Conversations for those who use Android, Monal or Siskin for the iOS victims).
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Kill me
9/July/2021 at 15:18
What is the easiest way to make your own end to end encrypted open source messaging
service?
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Anonymous
11/July/2021 at 07:53
“What is the easiest way to make your own end to end encrypted open source messaging
service?”
snikket.org
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Edgar
9/July/2021 at 16:20
It’s sad to see that people in the comments are attacking each other rather than taking
action or working together. What’s happening on the planet is a mirror of the people
themselves. In these moments it is becoming obvious why we are entering this era of
surveillance.
People need to unite and stop pushing out their individual believe systems.
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Anonymous
10/July/2021 at 05:19
This will likely be looked back on as the beginning of the end for the EU in future History
books. This level of human rights abuse and totalitarianism will only bring one end.
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Anonymous
10/July/2021 at 14:48
Nightmare! I want to wake up!
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Free communication
10/July/2021 at 15:25
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Jany
14/July/2021 at 03:18
This legislation follows on and is an extension of the Australian anti-encryption
legislation. They passed laws to force so�ware providers to include backdoors and
customized updates for specific users. This law is much more encompassing and casts a
wide net over everyone’s communication. To prevent this happening to you, use a
communication system that does not rely on middlemen messaging servers, who decrypt
and monitor your chats. Instead, use something like DeltaChat, which utilised a
AutoCrypt protocol for end to end encryption without an intermediary. These are pur
client apps that send encrypted messages using SMTP/POP as the transport protocols.
The sooner everyone moves to something like that, the better. The EU’s have gone
beyong their initial scope of an economic collective and are now intruding into social and
medical issues. Good luck to everyone in the EU. Love
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Anonymous
14/July/2021 at 06:48
THIS IS NOT A DEMOCRACY AT ALL.
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R4nG3r
14/July/2021 at 08:49
What about Session which is using Blockchain or Threema with servers in Switzerland,
outside of EU
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CHATCONTROL: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES MASS SURVEIL-

Breyer: “This harms children rather than protecting them”

“The adoption of the ﬁrst ever EU regulation on mass surveillance is a

Indiscriminate searches will not protect children and even endanger

Pirates plan legal action against the regulation

More Information on Chatcontrol: www.chatcontrol.eu (http://www.chatcontrol.eu/)

royale von cheese

Where is Dutroux now?

Which are harder to catch, terrorists or pedophiles?

This will not backﬁre at all..

Beziehungen der Arbeitnehmer zu bewerten, ihre Gespräche zu studieren, Daten über

Web3 and Streamr Network for real time data.

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