The European Parliament voted to end untargeted mass scanning of private communications in the EU, requiring any message scanning to be strictly targeted at individuals suspected by judicial authority of child sexual abuse. The vote rejects the previous 'Chat Control' surveillance model, which the Commission's own evaluation showed generated 48% false positives and has been largely ineffective due to encryption adoption and operator overreliance on a single US corporation.
The EU Parliament voted to ban untargeted mass scanning of private communications, requiring any chat scanning to be strictly limited to judicially-suspected individual users or groups. The vote rejects the previous 'Chat Control' system that generated 48% false positives and relied heavily on a single US corporation (Meta) for reporting.
Linux distributions and open-source communities are discussing responses to age-verification legislation like California's Digital Age Assurance Act, with organizations like EFF arguing such mandates are poorly designed, easily circumvented, and place disproportionate burdens on open-source developers.