🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-11-01
A mass surveillance proposal is left behind in the EU
It’s time to select the Friday news dump for this week’s most skillfully buried story.
Just as the world was gearing up for Halloween weekend, “Chat Control” withdrawal meant no candy for anti-privacy proponents in the EU.
In this news cycle, loss of support for a controversial proposed policy known as “Chat Control” forcing tech companies to scan private, encrypted messages, was skillfully buried on a Friday news dump. Had this news broken earlier in the week, it would have reignited a back and forth news cycle between privacy advocates and anti-privacy safety groups.
Also, giving notice at the end of tech earnings week right before a holiday weekend is savvy news management by euphemism. The result is a collapse of a major mass surveillance proposal positioned instead as a simple obscure administrative step (“instead support voluntary scanning”).
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