https://stopchatcontrol.eu/

It would be nice if we removed the security guards for politicans, and if they're not doing bad stuff, they have nothing to fear.

HN has terrible EU Derangement Syndrome:

any time its mentioned here, suddenly there are tens of people lining up to blindly shit on it, usually for laws it hasn't actually passed, or literal anti-truths like your comment, despite the fact that it is consistently passing the best tech-focused laws of any major governmental body anywhere, and the proposed laws that everyone repeatedly loses their minds over have never once actually come to pass. even when they released the DMA and DSA, possibly the two most HN-friendly pieces of legislation of all time, half the comments were attempts at criticism, basically seemingly because people here just love to hate the EU, sans facts

This is simply wrong:

They have banned _live_ facial recognition - and with exemptions such as e.g. for terrorism and other severe crimes, which is becoming quite broad.

They are allowing facial recognition when done after-the-fact for law enforcement. Probably also for petty crimes.

if you're going to change the central focus of your comment, do it in a reply not an edit

Here is an article about live/post facial recognition:

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-ai-facial-recognition-tec...