15 Mar 2021
Members of the European Parliament are welcoming plans from the European Commission to make email, messaging, and chat providers search through users’ private conversations and report “illegal material”, according to Patrick Breyer MEP.
Breyer, a German digital rights activist who represents the German Pirate Party in the EU’s parliament, revealed that fellow MEPs had voted overwhelmingly to “[welcome] the Commission’s intention to oblige e-mail, messaging and chat providers to search all private messages for allegedly illegal material and report to the police” on social media.
#ChatControl, as Breyer and other campaigners call the proposed measures, “will mean privatised mass surveillance and the end of digital secrecy of correspondence,” he warned.
Covid Chaos Hammers Czech Leader’s Support as Elections Loom Bloomberg 3/15/2021
(Bloomberg)
Support for the Czech Republic’s billionaire prime minister plunged to a record low as his minority government struggles to contain one of the world’s worst coronavirus crises before October elections.
Andrej Babis’s government was among the most successful globally in containing the virus a year ago, but now Czech infections are rising more than 10 times faster than in neighboring Germany, data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control show. The country also leads the world in deaths per capita, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
South Africa registered 1,006 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the cumulative total to 1,529,420. A further 65 Covid-19-related deaths were reported, bringing the total to 51,326 deaths.
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