#chat control

The post Vitalik Buterin Warns EU Chat Control Threatens Cybersecurity for Everyone appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has warned that the EU’s revived Chat Control plan threatens cybersecurity for everyone, after European lawmakers voted Tuesday to fast-track the message-scanning bill back for a decision. Parliament will now hold a real vote on Thursday on whether to bring the scanning rule back, and opponents need 361 votes to stop it, a higher bar than usual because this counts as a second attempt at the same proposal. Tuesday’s vote itself was procedural. MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) approved the move to reopen the issue by 331 votes to 304, with 11 abstentions. It didn’t restore scanning on its own, it just cleared the way for Thursday’s substantive vote. Parliament Forces a New EU Chat Control Vote EU privacy rules normally bar companies from reading private messages. A contested exemption lets platforms such as Meta and Google s

The post EU lawmakers revisit Chat Control rules: what does it mean for crypto? appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. EU lawmakers have reopened a vote on extending the bloc’s temporary “chat control” framework, setting up a decision that could allow online platforms to continue scanning private messages for child sexual abuse material until 2028. Summary EU lawmakers will vote on Thursday to decide whether temporary chat scanning rules should remain in force until 2028. Privacy advocates and crypto industry figures have warned that the proposal could weaken encrypted communications and digital asset security. Blockchain groups say mandatory client side scanning could expose crypto wallets to new security risks and increase compliance burdens for developers. According to Euronews, the European Parliament approved a rarely used urgent procedure on Tuesday that schedules a fresh vote for Thursday after the legal framework expired in early April. If approved, the extension would continue t

EU lawmakers have reopened a vote on extending the bloc’s temporary “chat control” framework, setting up a decision that could allow online platforms to continue scanning private messages for child sexual abuse material until 2028. According to Euronews, the European…

The post EU Again Set For Vote on ‘Chat Control’ appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. EU lawmakers are set to vote again on controversial legislation dubbed “chat control” by its critics, which would allow tech firms to scan messages for child sexual abuse material. On Tuesday, the European Parliament voted through a rarely used urgent procedure that will bring lawmakers to a vote Thursday on whether to extend the legal framework, which expired in early April. “Today’s vote violates our own rules of procedure, the European Parliament decided to use an urgent procedure for Chat Control 1.0,” Pirate Party MEP Markéta Gregorová said on Tuesday. “This means that on Thursday, we will once again vote on extending the derogation that allowed online platforms to scan our private communications.” The upcoming vote could revive the so-called “chat control” rules that are controversial among privacy and cryptography advocates, as tech companies must scan end-to-end encrypted messages. Since the l

So-called “chat control” rules could be revived in the EU, with lawmakers again set to vote on the legislation Thursday.