The European Union is advancing legislation on Chat Control—a controversial surveillance proposal targeting encrypted messaging—through backroom negotiations rather than public debate. The secretive approach has sparked renewed opposition from privacy advocates.
Chat Control would require tech platforms to scan private messages for illegal content, including child abuse material. The proposal threatens end-to-end encryption and has faced sustained criticism from security experts, civil rights groups, and tech companies.
EU lawmakers are reportedly negotiating concessions behind closed doors, potentially enabling the legislation to move forward with minimal public scrutiny. This process contradicts calls for democratic transparency on surveillance measures affecting millions of citizens.
Privacy advocates warn that backroom dealing could weaken already fragile safeguards. The legislation remains contentious across member states, with concerns about technical feasibility, security vulnerabilities, and fundamental rights implications.
The #FightChatControlEU movement has mobilized opposition, emphasizing that surveillance decisions of this magnitude require open parliamentary debate, not secretive negotiations.
A 68-year-old has been sentenced to over six years in prison in the U.K. for operating an illegal IPTV service that generated £980,812 ($1.3 million) over three years.
A detailed analysis examines how the internet has shifted toward predatory practices, drawing significant engagement from tech community members on Hacker News with 227 points and 120 comments.
A critical vulnerability in the popular GiveWP WordPress donation plugin allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands on hosting servers. The maximum-severity flaw requires immediate patching.
Over 8,300 internet-facing Gitea instances remain unpatched against a critical vulnerability being actively exploited in remote code execution attacks, according to Shadowserver.