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This isn't necessarily true: the Identity and Democracy faction is explicitly pro-privacy, digital rights and against Chat Control.

- https://id-party.eu/program/ (ID Party Official Site)

- https://idgroup.eu/news/online-censorship-is-a-threat-to-eur... (ID Group News)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_and_Democracy (Wikipedia Overview)

- https://id-party.eu/declaration-of-antwerp/ (ID Party Official Site)

The ID group is opposed to EU-wide surveillance measures, and promises to protecting individual privacy and national sovereignty.




FYI, 84% of ID has voted pro chat-control in 2021.

https://mepwatch.eu/9/vote.html?v=134463&eugroup=ID


I stand corrected. Guess all that posturing about privacy was all empty election promises then.

Seems like only the Greens, the left and within ID the AFD voted against.




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