EU Vote this Thursday: Monero, VPNs, Chats, and all Encryption
In the EU, they are voting on Chat Control now. This is deciding if they'll make encrypted chats illegal. This has huge effects for VPNs & Monero.
In the US, Chinese hackers have infiltrated the phone lines, And the FBI is telling ordinary Americans to encrypt their chats.
New Article: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/eu-thugs-chat-control/us-thugs-promote-encryption.html
Everyone in the EU should be pushing their politicians on this issue, as it definitely affects Monero in the EU.
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The EU's Chat Control proposal fundamentally conflicts with the legal requirement for end-to-end encryption, creating a direct pathway for forced backdoors that would simultaneously undermine Monero's privacy guarantees and render VPNs ineffective against traffic analysis. It is critical to distinguish between lawful data retention and the technical impossibility of "lawful" access to properly implemented encryption without breaking the underlying cryptographic protocols.
Are you certain that they still are voting this week?I thought it was last week and that it was stopped again (for now at least),
see the message by Patrick Breyer here: https://lemmy.ml/post/23312136
But if you still want to take action anyways, which can't hurt,
I've found following Change.org petitions regarding it:
Nvm, indeed the timeline on Patrick Breyer's site mentions:
12 December 2024: EU interior ministers to confirm mandatory chat control (chat control 2.0) proposal https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#timeline
I hope instant crypto exchanges, like SimpleSwap or Exolix, will remain open. They are the easiest way to buy and sell Monero.