On Wednesday 20th of August (starting 18:30, late arrivals welcome!) we will have an event with lodis! Location and RSVP below.
We will hang out in a park and write postcards to our elected officials in the EU Parliament telling them to vote no on the chat control proposal.
We’ll write as many postcards as we have postage and postcards - so if you want to donate stamps (Utrikes 44kr) or postcards - please do! Join the chat and announce your donation and we’ll handle it from there.
The topic at hand is a controversial proposal by the EU parliament, nicknamed Chat Control.
The “Chat Control” proposal would mandate scanning of all private digital communications, including encrypted messages and photos. This threatens fundamental privacy rights and digital security for all EU citizens.
EU politicians exempt themselves from this surveillance under “professional secrecy” rules.
Every photo, every message, every file you send will be automatically scanned—without your consent or suspicion. This is not about catching criminals. It is mass surveillance imposed on all 450 million citizens of the European Union.
Quote and more information at: https://fightchatcontrol.eu
NOTE: If you can’t join, you can use the link above to send a quick templated email to our European officials
The proposal is currently being fast-tracked by the Danish EU presidency for approval October of this year, and officials will be meeting next month after their vacations end.
A blog post in Swedish and the inspiration for our little postcard event (the gist: physical letters have a bigger impact!) https://femtejuli.se/2025/08/04/stoppa-chat-control-2-skriv-ett-vykort/
For an in-depth analysis of the regulation, see: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/
For a brief take-away of the consequences, see: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/chatcontrol-in-brief/
For the voice of those the regulation is disguising itself under, see the joint statement issued by 49 digital rights, human rights and children’s rights/protection organisations: https://edri.org/our-work/joint-statement-on-the-future-of-the-csa-regulation/
WHAT: Let’s write postcards in a park to speak up for the rights to privacy of every person in the EU
WHEN: Wednesday 20th of August, 2025 Sliding start 18:30-19:00 (feel free to bring your own dinner!) We will have some snacks too.
RSVP & chat: join this signal group chat where we’re talking about the event
If you want to come but don’t have signal: email lodis.3b@gmail.com
WHERE: Location announced in the chat. Plans are to be outside in a park if the weather allows. In the event of rainy weather, we’ll be at lodis, location at https://lodis.se
If we don’t stand up for our fundamental rights then they will crumble and we will have them no more.
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