Nuovi piani UE: app di messaggistica, automobili, VPN, giochi, e-commerce, servizi di taxi e consegna di cibo e altro ancora devono identificare gli utenti, monitorare l’attività degli utenti e conservare i dati degli utenti [Source in top level comment]
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[Source for screenshot, heise.de](https://www.heise.de/en/news/Data-Retention-Commission-to-present-proposal-by-mid-2026-11101430.html)
EU’s internal paper I’m quoting below was published on a [German news site Netzpolitik](https://netzpolitik.org/2025/internes-dokument-eu-staaten-fordern-ein-jahr-vorratsdatenspeicherung-fuer-internet-dienste-wie-messenger/). The article itself is in German but you can find the EU paper in English at the bottom. From the paper
> Member States highlight that stored traffic and location data are particularly relevant for the effective investigation and prosecution of criminal offences that leave few traces other than such data (e.g. cases regarding the acquisition, dissemination, transmission or making available online of child sexual abuse material[9]), and thereby minimise the risk of systemic impunity. With relevant data, investigators can get a clear picture of the criminal offences committed.
>Regarding the service providers that should be covered by the obligation to retain data, most **Member States express general support for future legislation to have the broadest possible scope of application,** including the possibility of adapting the list to future technological and market developments.
> More concretely, some Member States and the EU-CTC agree that over-the-top (OTT) services should be subject to retention obligations due to their dominance in communications (approximately 97% of mobile messages are currently sent via OTTs, with traditional SMS and MMS making up only about 3% of messages[12]).
> Further to the general reference to OTTs, Member States provided detail on a wide range of service providers to be included in a future legal framework, such as **domain name registries, hosting providers, file sharing and cloud storage services, payment service providers, providers of VPN services, cryptocurrency traders, e-commerce and financial platforms intermediaries, taxi and food delivery services and gaming platforms, as well as car manufacturers**
> Finally, some Member States highlight the fact that it would be important to bear in mind the recommendations of the HLG regarding the enforcement of sanctions against electronic and other communications service providers which do not comply with requirements regarding the retention and provision of data.
The High-Level Group that is behind the initiative [is anonymous](https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/111499769526754966) and EU has refused to identify the lobbyists.
This is the anti-GDPR. Instead of having obligations to minimize and delete data, companies would instead be obliged to gather and store data.
>VPN must be tracked
So no point to use a VPN then
Has the EU commission gone rogue? What’s up with them lately?
Well, this is a nightmare.
isn’t it interesting how this breach of privacy and free speech came like a wave all at once in the whole world? I guess Illuminati actually exists
It feels like EU is trying to make me an Eurosceptic at this point. Really has been weird.
Please let them track all my activity as i set up AI to constantly browse the entire internet to scramble the information.
So what’s the difference between the “areas” of chat control and gdpr? I don’t really know any details about any of these but to me it sounds like chat control basically takes away the effect of gdpr.
When I see this type of stuff, I ask myself if maybe Trump is right about the EU.
What is this insanity lately to strip us of every layer of privacy? Who are the interested parties in this? Is this a thinly veiled attempt by detractors like the US and/or Russia to make us all as miserable as their population?
Or is it some techbro interest, so their coveted AI has more data to gorge itself on, in a vain attempt to evolve it into some unknowable, but almost ceetainly unimportant final form?
Can someone knowledgable tell me if this will enable employers to track you more? Currently, the data integrity laws with the likes of Germany or Switzerland (not EU, i know) do not let our global employer track our presence in the office.
Our American colleagues are tracked