"EU backs away from mandatory Chat Control"
"Denmark proposes voluntary scanning compromise"
"Privacy concerns addressed in revised proposal"
What Actually Happened: On November 26, 2025, COREPER approved a negotiating mandate that creates three interlocking threats to digital privacy:
Privatized Mass Surveillance: Making the temporary "Chat Control 1.0" framework permanent
Death of Anonymous Communication: Mandatory age verification requiring ID for all digital services
Digital Exclusion of Teenagers: Effective ban on users under 17 accessing communication platforms
Why "Voluntary" Is a Lie
The revised text removes explicit mandatory detection orders but introduces Article 4's requirement for providers to take "all appropriate risk mitigation measures" to ensure safety. This isn't a softening—it's linguistic camouflage for the same outcome.
Providers must conduct risk assessments of their services
Risk categorization determines whether services are "high risk"
"High risk" services face mandatory mitigation obligations
Voluntary scanning is explicitly listed as a mitigation measure in determining risk category
Translation: If you don't "voluntarily" scan, authorities classify you as high risk, which triggers mandatory mitigation measures that include...scanning
As one privacy expert put it: "You are not required to volunteer to scan—but your required mitigation measures may include scanning voluntarily. This is logically impossible. Voluntary ≠ a component of required obligations."
jackmaoist in technology
EU Council has passed Chat Control
https://www.compliancehub.wiki/eu-chat-control-passes-committee-on-november-26-2025-voluntary-surveillance-mandatory-age-verification-and-the-political-deception-that-got-it-through/The Official Story vs. The Reality
What Headlines Are Saying:
What Actually Happened: On November 26, 2025, COREPER approved a negotiating mandate that creates three interlocking threats to digital privacy:
Why "Voluntary" Is a Lie
The revised text removes explicit mandatory detection orders but introduces Article 4's requirement for providers to take "all appropriate risk mitigation measures" to ensure safety. This isn't a softening—it's linguistic camouflage for the same outcome.
Here's why "voluntary" scanning becomes effectively mandatory:
The Coercive Framework:
As one privacy expert put it: "You are not required to volunteer to scan—but your required mitigation measures may include scanning voluntarily. This is logically impossible. Voluntary ≠ a component of required obligations."
Read more at : https://www.compliancehub.wiki/eu-chat-control-passes-committee-on-november-26-2025-voluntary-surveillance-mandatory-age-verification-and-the-political-deception-that-got-it-through/
I never want to hear bullshit from libs about "authoritarian China" for the rest of my life
We're soon going to be VPN-ing into China in order to get some modicum of privacy.
This is the biggest threat humanity faces from AI. Real time automated surveillance is going to doom any political movements for decades to come.
Back to handwritten communication then.
Carrier pigeon it is then!
I've slowly been becoming pro-VPN for some years now, I am officially there. I will not use a government ID to log onto basic shit damnit.
Also, this sentence is very AI slop coded:
Ugh going to have to use that session blockchain chat app now and convince my friends to do so too.
Watching the usual pro eu turbolibs on the national subreddit seeth over this was entertaining though.