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title: "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: “Our children lose out”"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0-breyer-our-children-lose-out--w4jdivjtj
source_url: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0-breyer-our-children-lose-out
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2026-07-09T12:27:01.698Z
updated: 2026-07-10T00:17:32.741Z
tags: ["privacy", "encryption", "data-protection"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 36
comments: 34
language: en
---

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# EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: “Our children lose out”

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 7 min read · 36 upvotes · 34 comments

## Summary

The EU Parliament has allowed Chat Control 1.0 to pass despite a majority of voting MEPs opposing it (314 against, 276 in favor), because the rejection motion failed to reach the required absolute majority of 361 votes. This reinstates warrantless mass scanning of private unencrypted messages on platforms like Instagram, Discord, Gmail, and iCloud until 2028. End-to-end encrypted services like WhatsApp remain exempt. Critics including civil rights activist Patrick Breyer and abuse survivors argue the measure is ineffective, generates massive false-positive rates (48% of alerts not criminally relevant, 99% of Meta reports being previously known material), and undermines the privacy that survivors rely on. Negotiations for a permanent 'Chat Control 2.0' regulation resume in September, with the core dispute being targeted vs. suspicionless scanning.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@dcorto** · 23 upvotes

> what a joke, shame on the EU

**@alvelinov** · 14 upvotes

> Third vote for this thing after 2 initial 'no'-s and they conveniently waited for vacation season to try again. What a joy it is to live in a (supposedly anti-)communist union :)

**@capjavert** · 9 upvotes

> ![GIF](https://static.klipy.com/ii/c3a19a0b747a76e98651f2b9a3cca5ff/2c/16/0avSZg6Y.gif)

**@coppnic** · 9 upvotes

> The Brussels Elite abusing the EU as always. This is a shame for our free democratic European Union.

**@notalizard\_really** · 7 upvotes

> It should require an absolute majority to pass, not to be rejected.
>
> But of course if they want it to pass, it'll pass.
>
> Democracy is a sham and has been so for ages.

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