Charlie Weimers (SD): Chat Control hotar mänskliga rättigheter

How does Sweden Democrats view chat control in the EU Chat control risks becoming the end of private communication in the EU It's a step closer to what we see in China An incredibly dangerous proposal Chat control aims to combat the spread of child pornography Is there any other more proportional solution to deal with this type of crime There are several ways to combat child pornography that genuinely respect personal privacy It avoids the type of mass surveillance that chat control would imply It may refer to voluntary tools that exist today with some kind of agreement between the EU and the platforms that offer chat services etc It is mainly about targeted efforts in contrast to scanning all the material There are photo-identical ones that you can work with You can work with digital fingerprints One can for example work on removing sensitive material There are ways to work with this and we must try them rather than mass surveillance What would it mean for Swedish citizens and EU citizens in general if chat control were implemented as the proposal currently stands Currently there was one person using an app like WhatsApp or Facebook's Messenger service or Signal It sends its messages with end-to-end encryption This means no one else can access the material The approach being proposed by the EU Commission and currently being negotiated in the ministers' council is known as client-side scanning It is intended that some kind of spy program will be on every European mobile phone and scan a message before sending it in this end-to-end encrypted chat It has been attempted before For example Apple tried to develop client-side scanning Men man gave up this project after hackers were able to get into it I think it took a few weeks only So the technique that the EU wants to test would obviously risk opening up access for hackers to get into your phone others' phones and my phone also enable hostile powers to spy on decision-makers government officials and others in sensitive positions in our society It contributes to the reason why this proposal can be called dangerous How would you say the view is on freedom and rights when it comes to freedom of speech like this one really is and is poking at I would say that the commitment doesn't seem to be very strong among politicians here in Brussels On the other hand many people have experienced this and I have not encountered anything similar before as a parliamentarian Many people have heard from ordinary Swedes who are worried about what will happen to their personal privacy Many here are sitting and hoping that new technology in the future will someday be able to solve a problem they see They sit and guess and do not take freedom and rights particularly into account They do not take into account that experts have condemned this proposal as a breac uman rights both the UN Declaration and the European Conventio Both emphasize that private communication and correspondence are human rights Man moves away from it and that's probably why I think that even with this proposal It would risk falling into court Because it so blatantly violates human rights This proposal has been put to a vote similar to its predecessor He has been up for a vote a couple of times There is now a fear that Germany will vote for this proposal You are clearly against it what are you going to do now We are doing what we can to put pressure on the other Swedish parties They are not least in the EU withdrawal movement they spoke about being against it The government has representatives who go to Brussels and want to have a say Even more chat control than what is already on the table So we are trying to put pressure on them we are trying to raise people's awareness That's at home about what is actually happening Because it's somewhere that the Moderate Party and the other parties Social Democrats Christian Democrats and Liberals if they get away with this Then they will continue then they will not stop and limit our personal privacy The people's education in this regard is important We argue as much as we can here in the parliament for simply Try to have a majority that says no to these proposals on client-side scanning It is obviously the case that the European Parliament's stance influences how the Council of Ministers' discussions end What is the situation in the cabinet today and what is the situation in the parliament It's just like yourself said it's Germany that is sitting as a sort of Watchman in the current situation These are several countries Belgium the Netherlands Finland with more people who are opponents of this proposal If Germany takes their side there will be a so-called blocking minority Then the proposal falls or at least gets put in the freezer Men when Germany is in a slump and gets worse it's like this again and then it gets worse A negotiation with the European Parliament and we risk getting chat control 2.0