This shows that citizen actions work. We can successfully push back on these privacy-invasive laws and proposals when we all work together. We won this fight, but maybe not the battle. Let’s keep on the good work everyone! 
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If only we could get US citizens to campaign like this for basic privacy legislation
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The duality of a privacy advocate
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Great news! It’s nice to finally get some good news after the doom and gloom last few mouths.
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You are celebrating, but maybe its misleading article title.
From the same article at the end:
The proponents of Chat Control will use every trick in the book and will not give up easily. We will keep fighting until this proposal is defeated once and for all, and the privacy of our digital lives is secure for everyone
I wasn’t literally celebrating. It was more of a sarcastic remark to chat control being a constant battle being repeated over the past few years. But power to you!
We should celebrate every little win, this is important for a sustained action. But this is winning a fight, and not the whole battle. We must continue to put pressure, but yes we can (and must) take a beat to celebrate our victories, even when small.
The article’s title isn’t misleading, a gain was made but Chat Control has come back before and will come back again. Lobbyists will not stop pushing for it. We need to use these victories to prepare to fight back again even stronger, like for any wars.
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Win was just confirmed by fightchatcontrol:
This is an important milestone only made possible by all of you actively raising your voices to your MEPs and MPs. THANK YOU! We need to remain vigilant: the Justice and Home Affairs Council is still meeting the 13-14th October.
We need to actively monitor the coming days!
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Some additional information, translated from German by Firefox’s automated translation:
Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, the Union’s group leader, Jens Spahn, said: "We as the CDU/CSU parliamentary group are against the causeless control of chats.
Union gets many letters for chat control
The topic of chat control has made great waves in recent days and has been a political constant on social media since last week, which has mobilized many people. Jens Spahn also confirmed in the press conference that the Union Group would reach many letters on the issue. Bavarian Digital Minister Fabian Mehring (Free Voters) and CSU Member of Parliament Christian Doleschal also spoke out against the chat control.
Numerous civil society organisations have positioned themselves strongly against chat control in recent days, including Amnesty International, Reporters Without Borders, the German Child Protection Association, but also business associations such as eco and Bitkom, as well as European digital companies. Messengers such as Signal, Threema and WhatsApp are also against chat control.
For years, hundreds of IT experts and security researchers, lawyers, data protectors, digital organizations, tech companies, messengers, UN representatives, child protection activists, guardians of Internet standards and scientists worldwide have been talking their mouths against chat control. An incredible breadth of civil society rejects chat control because it would become Europe’s largest and most dangerous surveillance machine.
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Here’s to Alice and Bob! 
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Unfortunately it’s NOT the decision of the CDU parliamentary group but the two responsible ministries BMI and BMJ so bad suprises can still happen.
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Best privacy news in a while!!!
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Democracy at its finest.
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If your country doesn’t oppose, please continue the outreach. If we can make other countries flip, the momentum will be clear
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Lovely how Politico frames it as a tool to fight CSAM rather than a framework for mass surveillance and monitoring citizens’ political opinion.
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I think they’re presenting what they know about. Don’t think media should also be in charge of interpreting the news story as well to provide any conclusions or analysis about it which may or may not be in their expertise to begin with - unless its an OP-ED piece.
Calling grassroots activism “spam” and phrasing this as a “one-man campaign” “ravaging” a bill for legislators is certainly some special type of bias.
Fight Chat Control is an astonishing tool and very well-built website, but the millions of people who wanted to contact their representatives using this tool is what democracy looks like. Reducing their voices to a “spam campaign” is unacceptable honestly.
I’m glad they quoted EDRi at least, but only at the very end.
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Chat Control has been removed from the agenda again, according to Swedish media:
For three and a half years, EU governments have tried – and failed – to find a common position.
The latest version of the EU law, popularly known as ‘chat control’, has been signed by the Danish government, which holds the presidency of the EU Council of Ministers this autumn. The text of the law means that digital messaging services must scan all communications – even encrypted ones – to look for child abuse in photos, videos and links.
Since the original bill in 2022, a handful of proposals have been put forward to governments, but none have received sufficient support, neither those containing requirements for mass surveillance nor those that completely scrap the requirements, such as a Polish proposal this spring. In order to move forward, at least 15 countries representing at least 65 per cent of the EU’s population are required.
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There has been speculation that Germany could change its stance following this year’s change of government. However, at a preparatory EU meeting on Wednesday evening, it was once again confirmed that there is no support for the current proposal. It will therefore be removed from the agenda when the justice ministers meet on Monday.
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They will try again in a couple months.
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