This week, the European Parliament faces a decisive vote on whether the indiscriminate scanning of private chats and emails by US tech companies (Chat Control 1.0) will be allowed to continue. After Parliament voted on 11 March to replace blanket mass surveillance with targeted monitoring of suspect
So let me get this straight: For the past years, the vote was postponed time and time again because the proponents of Chat Control thought they’d lose (which is already insane). And now that the vote happened and turned out against Chat Control, it can somehow be overturned? What’s the point of having a vote at all if the outcome is not binding?