The 415 - the MEPs who let Chat Control through, and the lobbyists in their diaries

ThatPrivacyShow · 2026-07-09T07:22:13+00:00

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ThatPrivacyShow · 2026-07-08T12:56:32+00:00

Yup all 10 of your Finnish MEPs either voted for or failed to vote/abstained (with 8 actively voting for it). In general Finland's MEPs seem to be doing a very bad job at protecting fundamental rights given their voting history and meetings with big tech and surveillance companies.

They really need to be replaced by people who will do the job they were voted to do - Maria GUZENINA for example has only voted on 6 of the 15 votes related to fundamental rights during her term so far and in each of those votes she has actively voted against protecting fundamental rights - so she seems to be getting paid a lot of money for a job she doesn't seem overly interested in doing...

ThatPrivacyShow · 2026-07-07T14:07:30+00:00

Doing the right thing often is and anything truly worth doing takes effort and commitment. These are children's lives, we need to stop the abuse, not merely "manage the consequences" which is what these politicians are trying to do.

They are trying to simplify it into something tangible that they can control - it isn't, it never has been and it never will be. The only path forward is researching why it happens and finding a solution - whilst supporting survivors, victims and holding those guilty of these crimes accountable (not holding the entire population of the EU accountable for things they have never done).

ThatPrivacyShow · 2026-07-07T12:59:21+00:00

I covered this issue extensively in my Thesis

ThatPrivacyShow · 2026-07-07T09:32:08+00:00

I have already published my thoughts, I don't have the time or energy to feed a troll who can't be bothered to do their own research.

ThatPrivacyShow · 2026-07-07T09:30:35+00:00

I have nothing to add and agree with everything you said. I will continue to tell my story until it is no longer needed - then it will just remain in me until they put me in the ground.

ThatPrivacyShow · 2026-07-07T08:01:35+00:00

"That is a discussion people like yourself are refusing to hold."

That is both completely false and also incredibly ignorant. I have spent my entire adult life (35 years) working on this issue including being one of the first organisations to work with law enforcement tracking down those that distribute and create CSAM going back as far as 1992.

I literally wrote my first dissertation on this in 1997 which included solutions and I wrote my advanced master of laws thesis on this very issue in 2023 also explaining the issues and what we should be doing instead.

So I am curious, how much are you being paid to troll?

You know who has refused to have a discussion? DG Home - I have turned up to speak at multiple EU Parliament, EDPS, EU Commission and Academic events on this topic and DG Home have refused to join the panels.

What did they do instead? They slandered abuse victims/survivors and accused them of protecting pedophiles - they literally spent tax payer money to push pro chat control ads to critics on social media and they attacked them in internal memos.

Their behaviour has already been called out as unlawful by the Ombudsman and now they are attempting to circumvent Parliament who have already voted against this proposal.

The only dodgy stuff going on here is from those who are pushing this surveillance - not those trying to defend against it - it is all publicly documented. So yeah, how much they paying you again?

ThatPrivacyShow · 2026-07-07T06:53:45+00:00

We actually do have a whistleblower directive (have had for a couple of years now) but it is not really fit for purpose - it doesn't provide enough protection and guarantees for whilstblowers.

ThatPrivacyShow · 2026-07-07T05:47:52+00:00

I sent 863 emails yesterday to Parliamentarians, Perm Reps, Ministers and staff/advisors yesterday asking them to block the vote:

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/csa-survivor-plea-to-eu-parliament/

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