It has been voted down twice now. Guess what? That doesn't mean it's dead. It's being worked on as we speak. The last meeting was just a few weeks ago.
See my comment above, it doesn't matter that it was voted down. The point is that it was allowed to go to a vote in the first place.
How do you square being pro privacy but at the same time demanding to have unlimited access to all chat messages, emails, pictures and so on of all your citizens without the need for a warrant, without justification and without the citizens having any say on the matter?
The answer is that you can't. You either are for privacy or you are not.
As for not applying to the UK, that is a moot point because as soon as the EU gets it's wish then the UK will demand the same kind of access. Why would the UK government turn down such an opportunity?
It has been voted down twice now. Guess what? That doesn't mean it's dead. It's being worked on as we speak. The last meeting was just a few weeks ago.
https://www.parlament.gv.at/dokument/XXVIII/EU/9693/imfname_...
See my comment above, it doesn't matter that it was voted down. The point is that it was allowed to go to a vote in the first place.
How do you square being pro privacy but at the same time demanding to have unlimited access to all chat messages, emails, pictures and so on of all your citizens without the need for a warrant, without justification and without the citizens having any say on the matter?
The answer is that you can't. You either are for privacy or you are not.
As for not applying to the UK, that is a moot point because as soon as the EU gets it's wish then the UK will demand the same kind of access. Why would the UK government turn down such an opportunity?