Nope, warrentless blanket surveillance will be pushed through after all – even after having been defeated 4 times recently and several times in the past. Democracy and will of the people and EP be damned!
[…] The trilogue negotiations to extend the temporary, voluntary chat monitoring measure 1.0 have failed for the time being , meaning the exceptional regulation would expire on April 3. This failure followed a parliamentary vote last week . While the members of parliament approved an extension, they also decided on restrictions: scanning should not be indiscriminate, but only targeted at specific users when there is suspicion of wrongdoing.
However, this option was rejected by the Council in the trilogue negotiations, as the member states want to continue using chat monitoring 1.0 without cause – that is, without suspicion. Such suspicionless scanning has been criticized for years, including by civil rights organizations and the European Data Protection Supervisor .
A classified Council protocol from March 13 , which we are publishing in full, makes it clear that the EU Member States apparently view compromises on the temporary voluntary chat control 1.0 as a kind of preliminary decision for the far more important negotiations on the CSA Regulation and thus on a permanent regulation (chat control 2.0).
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Chat monitoring will be back in parliament on March 26.
Adding to the confusion is the fact that the issue of “voluntary chat monitoring” is back on the European Parliament’s agenda for March 26 , and that the amendments from March 11 will apparently be voted on again. Even if this is a proper procedure, the process is at least unusual, as confirmed to netzpolitik.org by staff members of MEPs from various political groups.
Several scenarios are now conceivable:
If there is a motion and a majority before the meeting to remove the item from the agenda, then chat control 1.0 would be dead.
Should the vote remain on the agenda, then amendments would be voted on again. The parliamentary groups have now submitted new amendments (29-36) , including the important amendment 35 , which limits chat monitoring 1.0 to suspects.
Should even a single amendment be adopted in plenary, further trilogue negotiations could ensue. Such a procedure is so rare that even long-serving staff members of members of parliament have never experienced anything like it
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Source: Extension of the exemption: Council knowingly allowed chat control negotiations to fail.
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