Ella Jakubowska

Digital human rights policy nerd at civil society group EDRi (npub1w4r…8cxz), posting mostly about EU laws relating to #biometrics or #CSAR (aka #ChatControl).

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2025-10-06 13:59:00 UTC

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- More than ever, the Council is being put under immense pressure to find agreement. Six countries have tried and failed to get a deal so far - and the only one that actually opposed #ChatControl was Poland.
- Denmark is now the country that is trying to get a Council deal, and their Justice minister has been coming out with all sorts of wild stuff like "I believe that more surveillance equates to more freedom" (see the @npub14rv…y6tq campaign for more);
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2025-10-06 13:54:32 UTC

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- We collected info about the main Commission controversies, including *confirmed illegal actions*, here: https://edri.org/our-work/csa-regulation-document-pool/;
- Since then, a lot has happened. The European Parliament adopted a pretty good position against #ChatControl back in 2023;
- But "the Council" (the grouping of EU Member States) doesn't have a position yet. They've gone back and forth for literally years and luckily, a sufficient number of countries have always said no to mass surveillance + breaking E2EE;
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2025-10-06 13:50:45 UTC

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- Yes, the Commission's proposal contained some "safeguards", but all the official legal services of the EU institutions warned that these would not be enough to make the proposal lawful. In fact, they were all clear that if adopted, the proposal would amount to mass surveillance and would undermine encryption (https://edri.org/our-work/most-criticised-eu-law-of-all-time/);
- Despite this, the Commission's Home Affairs dept has lobbied for their own law in an unprecedented way - which several times led to maladministration;
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2025-10-06 13:47:18 UTC

A lot of people talking about the EU's #ChatControl bill, and rightly so. There are 2 really important votes coming up.
As someone who has worked on it for 4 years (before the official proposal was even put forward) from a digital human rights perspective, here's a quick recap / informed source of what the heck is actually going on:
- The European Commission put forward a proposal in 2022 to mass scan public and private communications, using AI, in case of people sharing abuse material;
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2024-12-11 13:08:47 UTC

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- Perhaps even worse still, there are indications that many of the pro-Chat Control countries are endorsing this dangerous and undemocratic strategy of Hungary;
- I have never seen a strategy like this: where a Presidency knows a public Ministerial vote will fail, but they do it anyway to sow discord;
- So what can you / we all do?