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EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0

patrick-breyer.de published 2026-07-095 min read

Today, the European Parliament allowed the suspicionless mass scanning of private communications ("Chat Control 1.0") to pass, a measure it had rejected twice in March. Although a majority of voting Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) actually opposed the regulation (314 against, 276 in favor,

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