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The EU Parliament has taken a stand for privacy | Proton (proton.me)

submitted 10 months ago by aetherius@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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On Thursday October 26th, MEPs in the European Parliament held press conferences outlining the compromises reached within the EU Parliament negotiators on the controversial Chat Control proposal.

Thankfully it appears that progress is being made in the fight to preserve privacy. According to MEPs, Parliamentarians have agreed to remove the clauses that would give law enforcement the power to demand end-to-end encrypted platforms hand over users messages, emails, and files as part of criminal investigations.

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[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Personally I see it as an arms race. As they take away privacy I ramp up my use of privacy protection.

Whether that's by using encrypted comms, VPNs, browser plugins or settings.

For example I regularly use Mullvad. I recently installed Adguard Home on my OpenWRT router to block trackers. I have uBlock on my browser and may be switching to Firefox soon too.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

those are all things only ubernerds are doing.

we need deeper protections than that because they dont even have to make privacy impossible, just annoying for 99% of normies.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Also, when everyone else in your life isn't private, neither are you.

[–] SparkyTemper@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

Unfortunately we all laugh at the meme of being on death row for running an blocker in the future but it sure feels that way some days.