Post B1NwkTgiSVIsfEWlGa by mullvadnet@mastodon.online
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 (DIR) Post #B1NwkHNqCr4iVDbWBE by mullvadnet@mastodon.online
       2025-12-18T20:47:35Z
       
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       The European Commission lost the Chat Control 2.0 battle over access to end-to-end encrypted data. By the summer 2026, they will be back with their next attempt: Going Dark. This time some EU member states want to include VPN services.The Going Dark initiative, or ProtectEU as the Commission now calls it, wants to “enable law enforcement authorities to access encrypted data in a lawful manner”. This is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1NwkNNLvaFX5RQDFg by mullvadnet@mastodon.online
       2025-12-18T20:48:03Z
       
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       The EU Commission and several member states are also looking for new rules on data retention. In a new ”Presidency outcome paper”, the member states discuss metadata retention: which websites you visit, and who is communicating with whom, when and how often. The ambition is “to have the broadest possible scope of application” and this time some member states also want the proposal to include VPN services.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1NwkTgiSVIsfEWlGa by mullvadnet@mastodon.online
       2025-12-18T20:48:19Z
       
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       Mullvad has spent the last three years opposing Chat Control 2.0 – even though the law would have affected our business positively.We will continue to fight Going Dark with full force, regardless of whether VPNs are included or not. If VPNs are included, and if Going Dark becomes law, we will never spy on our customers no matter what.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1Nx3Ks9SW3ApDrttA by realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social
       2025-12-18T21:25:12Z
       
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       @mullvadnet > The #EuropeanCommission lost the #ChatControl 2.0 battle over access to end-to-end encrypted data.When did this happen?
       
 (DIR) Post #B1O0l3Vbg3xRZprVfk by cina@fosstodon.org
       2025-12-18T20:59:21Z
       
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       @mullvadnet So by 2030 we will have to fight chat control 8.0?
       
 (DIR) Post #B1O0l4kX43UVQPqwZk by h4890@alive.bar
       2025-12-18T22:06:41Z
       
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       @cina @mullvadnet Yes... this is a bug of the western representative democratic system and the EU project. It strives for extreme centralization, and as long as this continues unchecked, chat control and the domination of the individual will continue. Only extreme decentralization of power will be able to once and for all stop these kind of perversions. I think we'll probably need a world war or so, to clean out the latent aggression and authoritarianism that has taken root in the minds of our politicians since corona.