Vote results: Temporary derogation from the ePrivacy directive
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Find out how the Members of the European Parliament voted.

It’s a fucking disgrace.

Today (9 July), only 314 MEPs voted to reject Chat Control 1.0 — short of the 361-vote absolute majority needed to stop it — so warrantless mass scanning of private messages continues until 2028. The fight over the permanent Chat Control 2.0 resumes in September. TAKE ACTION NOW to demand your MEPs defend your private messages.

https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/195775#result

Big Tech’s Lapdog indeed.

“It is a temporary exception that lets U.S. tech firms scan direct messages on services such as Instagram, Discord, Snapchat, Gmail and iCloud without a warrant or prior suspicion.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/eu-parliament-fails-to-block-chat-control-extending-message-scanning-to-2028/ar-AA27zlor

  • Babalugats@feddit.ukOP
    2·
    5 days ago

    Because it is a “proposition de rejet”.

    • 🟢 🟩 Green means AGAINST Chat Control 🟢 🟩
    • 🔴 🟥 Red means FOR Chat Control 🔴 🟥

    It’s deliberately vague, even the politicians found it confusing.

    From HERE

    “It is a temporary exception that lets U.S. tech firms scan direct messages on services such as Instagram, Discord, Snapchat, Gmail and iCloud without a warrant or prior suspicion.”

    It basically allows any company to scan and read any of your messages if they are able to.

    Because of the unusual procedure, voting in Strasbourg was confused and chaotic. One member told Parliament Vice President Sophie Wilmès: “We don’t know what we are voting on.”

    The vote means member countries must now decide whether to accept the Parliament’s changes. If they do not, and propose a different version, the law will go to a dreaded “conciliation” procedure. That procedure was used earlier this year to pass a long-stalled law on air passengers’ rights but, other than that, has not been used since 2013.