Daily Archives: October 9, 2025

Germany against ChatControl: Denmark takes it off the table so the EU can’t vote against it NOW, but will re-try (3rd time lucky) later again, when the people aren’t looking.

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Germany does not support the Danish proposal on the so-called CSA regulation, which is called ‘chat control’ by critics.

The proposal was to be voted on on Tuesday in the EU Council of Ministers, but it has now been taken off the table.

The Danish government, which currently holds the EU Presidency, has chosen to withdraw the proposal from the vote. This is stated in a press release from the German parliament.

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Among other things, 500 researchers from 34 countries worldwide, including 25 from Danish universities, have signed a letter criticizing the CSA regulation, as they believe, among other things, that the method will be ineffective and that there will at the same time be a high risk of misuse of information.

And leading experts in encryption have compared the suggestion of placing a spy microphone in everyone’s pockets.

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The Danish Minister of Justice, Peter Hummelgaard (S), confirms in a written reply to DR News that the proposal will not be discussed at the Council meeting next week.

“It’s no secret that it’s a difficult case with many considerations that needs to be balanced. This is shown by the great public debate that has been in the recent past as well.

“Since the necessary support for the current compromise proposal has not yet been established, prior to the Council meeting next week, the proposal will not be discussed by the ministers at the Council meeting,” he said.

Despite the fact that the government has not succeeded in finding the necessary support, the Minister of Justice does not give up.

– However, the Danish EU Presidency will continue to work on the Member States to find a solution, and therefore negotiations on the technical details of the proposal will continue.

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“Both ministries stressed (the German Ministry of Interior and Justice) that, like many other EU countries, they do not support the Danish proposal in the current form,” it said.

Source: Tyskland fejer kontroversielt ‘chatkontrol’-forslag af bordet | Politik | DR

An absolute gutter move by Denmark, freeing them up to try again a 3rd time – and call it a second attempt. Maybe they will try over December, April or July, when the proletariat is on holiday and won’t raise such a stink about being spied on 24/7 by their own governments. There is nothing democratic about the way this is being handled.

Logitech POP Buttons Are About Become e-waste

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For those who missed out on the past few years of ‘smart home’ gadgets, the Logitech POP buttons were introduced in 2018 as a way to control smart home devices using these buttons and a central hub. After a few years of Logitech gradually turning off features on this $100+ system, it seems that Logitech will turn off the lights in two weeks from now. Remaining POP Button users are getting emails from Logitech in which they are informed of the shutdown on October 15 of 2025, along with a 15% off coupon code for the Logitech store.

Along with this coupon code only being usable for US-based customers, this move appears to disable the hub and with it any interactions with smart home systems like Apple HomeKit, Sonos, IFTTT and Philips Hue. If Logitech’s claim in the email that the buttons and connected hub will ‘lose all functionality’, then it’d shatter the hopes for those who had hoped to keep using these buttons in a local fashion.

Suffice it to say that this is a sudden and rather customer-hostile move by Logitech. Whether the hub can be made to work in a local fashion remains to be seen. At first glance there don’t seem to be any options for this, and it’s rather frustrating that Logitech doesn’t seem to be interested in the goodwill that it would generate to enable this option.

Source: Logitech POP Buttons Are About To Go Pop | Hackaday