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Europe and Australia will both not break encryption! We’ve interviewed Patrick Breyer – the guy who coined the term Chat Control – on why privacy matters.
Action taken by privacy activists and citizens stops the push for mass surveillance.
And what happened next was that in parliament I worked very hard and we fought a lot together with civil society and scientists and industry, that protecting children and keeping them safe online needs a different approach than mass surveillance. These are closed door meetings with no participation of of experts and usually experience shows that parliament has a tendency to give in to get the agreement of the others and it would be faced with both the commission and a council that both endorse Chat Control so that that would be very dangerous for negotiations to be in a situation like that. Political activists, human rights defenders, the democratic opposition in oppressive countries, journalists that need to be in touch with whistle-blowers anonymously, we rely on their work to disclose scandals and things that are terribly going wrong.
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