Parliament in Austria has approved tracking messages in chat applications

https://lnginnorthernbc.ca/2025/07/09/parliament-in-austria-has-approved-tracking-messages-in-chat-applications/

by thm • 1 year ago

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arresin• 1 year ago

Monitoring will only be possible in a significant limited range of cases where terrorist or unconstitutional activities are suspected or spying.

These categories are completely subjective and in the past have always been abused.

thegrim33• 1 year ago

Googling around, filtering out the 100 different leech articles which all just rephrase the same thing as all the others, with none of them actually providing details or any sort of source, this is the only link I've found with any other details: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Austrian-government-adopts-fede...

Looks like they want to accomplish it by infecting target machines with malware to give them access, vs. forcing the companies to give them access.

manveru• 1 year ago

Here's the actual source from the parliament, https://www.parlament.gv.at/aktuelles/pk/jahr_2025/pk0643 (in German, but should be easy enough to translate). They haven't said how they want to accomplish it, but some form of spy/malware is probably the only way. There is a lot of opposition to it (like https://www.parlament.gv.at/dokument/XXVIII/I/166/fnameorig_...) but unfortunately the terrorists have already won, so now everyone has neither freedom nor safety. Can only hope this gets struck down by the constitutional court.

Parliament in Austria has approved tracking messages in chat applications

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