Posted on 10/08/2025 7:08:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Soon, the EU may have access to every photo, message and video on your phone or computer.
After Germany dropped its long-standing opposition to EU chat control, leading encrypted messenger Signal issued a dire warning about privacy in Europe, with the post going viral.
However, now European parties such as the Alternative for Germany (AfD) have joined in the criticism, with the party warning just before the EU Council vote that so-called “chat control” could end privacy entirely in Europe.
The protest from the AfD comes after Signal threatened to pull out entirely from Europe if the EU implements its surveillance plans. If Signal went through with such a move, it would be a major black eye for the EU, putting it on par with surveillance states like China.
Ruben Rupp, the digital policy spokesperson for the AfD parliamentary group, warned against “total surveillance under the guise of child protection.”
“What is being sold here is, in reality, a frontal attack on the fundamental rights of all citizens. Such a measure places the entire population under general suspicion,” Rupp said. He added that millions of innocent users would be spied on, and instead, the focus should be on harsher punishments for those who hurt or abuse children, not mass surveillance.
AfD politician Rupp wants Berlin to turn against the new spying powers that would be granted to the EU.
He said that “Germany can no longer duck away, but must vote against this surveillance madness together with freedom-oriented states like Poland and Austria. Freedom and privacy are not negotiable goods.”
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I expect the democRATs to try this in the USA too.
So, AfD are zee naughtZees now?
All part of the plan for world domination, no doubt.
It’s so sweet how they think we don’t realize they already do.
Now that the left views the internet as a threat to its power they hate it.
There is a contingent on here that I suspect would have no problem with this, if not gung ho for it.
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I think back to the same assertion made by DEMOCRATS about President Trump. And then I think to those Freepers who use the same non-argument on other Freepers. It surely seems a fine "one size fits all" but of rhetoric.
The only way to have privacy is to get rid of your computer, phone, all checking, savings and investment accounts, your home and your cars.
“Ruben Rupp, the digital policy spokesperson for the AfD parliamentary group, warned against ‘total surveillance under the guise of child protection.’”
Parents are generally the best protectors of their own children. Government, not so much.
The laws needed to protect children do not require government surveilance.
What laws are needed would give parents the tools to monitor all online/cell phone activities by their minor children.
Children do not need to do anything online or on a cell phone that requires their privacy.
Designating online and cell phone accounts as adult or minor, and requiring social media and cellular service companies to provide services in compliance with these standards, would go a long way in protecting children.
The gestapo all over again. History does repeat itself.
>> There is a contingent on here that I suspect would have no problem with this, if not gung ho for it.
Seriously?
You don’t need to name names — but describe what you think their “shape” is. ‘cause I don’t see it.
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Subtle defense of shenanigans in Romania and other places, imho.
Going further back, note the responses to the assasination of Fico, or the protests against Orban. The same handles seem to pop up again and again. I won't point them out specifically. I have noticed one of them, who inadvertently derided the US and what it stood for and was called out on it, doesn't seem to post here anymore.
OK, if you’re talking about foreign posters here, I can see your point.
How many times must the Americans rescue Europeans from their stupidity?
The only way to have privacy is to get rid of your computer, phone, all checking, savings and investment accounts, your home and your cars.
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This kind of sounds like the profile description of a Homeless.
“This kind of sounds like the profile description of a Homeless.”
Close, but they usually have phones.
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