alt Hacker NewsInteresting way to frame the fact that the members of the european parliament voted 311 to 218 yesterday to reject the companies right to spy on you.
I'm the first person to admit the EU has democratic deficit, but MEPs are directly elected by EU citizens and they chose this in a democratic process. The companies are certainly making a choice with this blogpost.
I dunno, man. If tech companies responded to a failure to extend interim guidance by terminating their CSAM detection programs, and claimed when challenged that the EU made them do it, I'm pretty confident there would be much more outrage about "malicious compliance". If the EU wants companies to stop detecting CSAM until the final guidance arrives, they should say so directly.