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We have designated WhatsApp as a Very Large Online Platform under the Digital Services Act.
As WhatsApp Channels reaches 45 million EU users, it must now meet higher safety and transparency standards, including risk assessment and content moderation.
These rules focus on keeping public broadcasts safe for all, while ensuring your private messages stay private.
For a digital Europe where safety and privacy coexist.
More: link.europa.eu/YCP7VK
#DSA
Commission designates WhatsApp as Very Large Online Platform under the Digital Services Act
The European Commission has formally designated WhatsApp as a Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) under the Digital Services Act (DSA), as its ‘Channels’ feature reaches the designation threshold of at least 45 million users in the EU.Shaping Europe’s digital future
spacebug
in reply to European Commission • • •"..while ensuring your private messages stay private.".
So then you will end Chat Control?
Elric
in reply to European Commission • • •Content moderation? In private messages? Are you patently insane?
Edit: the moderation is apparently not for private messages, only for "public groups" (whatever the fuck those are).
frederic
in reply to Elric • • •Daniel Swann
in reply to Elric • • •@elricofmelnibone I believe the original post is entirely intended to show how WhatsApp cannot just be considered a private messaging app anymore
(this is your reminder to buy and use Threema)
jan Ki | 奇
in reply to European Commission • • •GreatLakeTrout
in reply to jan Ki | 奇 • • •From everywhere please 🙏
Sören
in reply to European Commission • • •jan Ki | 奇
in reply to Sören • • •why replace one shitty centralized US app that doesn't respect privacy with another?
It's either decentralized with E2E and without identity verification, or it's garbage.
GreatLakeTrout
in reply to Sören • • •@apnoe_soeren @signalapp @threemaapp
Truth
¢ypress
in reply to European Commission • • •GreatLakeTrout
in reply to ¢ypress • • •Which I hope it never ever does. It will change everything for the worse. Shame on the @EUCommission for their deception, untruths and overreach.
xeekei 🌐
in reply to European Commission • • •H.Lunke & Socke
in reply to European Commission • • •Ok
Andrey Bondarenko
in reply to European Commission • • •Ilian Dzhambazov
in reply to European Commission • • •Johns
in reply to European Commission • • •gommehammer
in reply to Johns • • •frederic
in reply to European Commission • • •Ben
in reply to European Commission • • •Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Ben • • •@ben already an option, kinda, based on the Digital Markets Act (a different legislation than Digital Services Act mentioned in the original post of this thread):
privacyguides.org/news/2025/11…
Matrix would have to apply to be a third-party WhatsApp client. Whether or not rules around this are FLOSS-friendly is something to be tested, Meta I think requires signing of an NDA to get access to the API.
WhatsApp Rolls Out Messaging Interoperability for Europeans
Fria Reyes (Privacy Guides)spla
in reply to European Commission • • •Diana 🇪🇺🇺🇦
in reply to European Commission • • •No, thank you.
Sören
in reply to Diana 🇪🇺🇺🇦 • • •Not private chats.
Henrik Pauli
in reply to European Commission • • •> For a digital Europe where safety and privacy coexist.
That's a funny paragraph to read from the people who can't leave Chat Control alone and keep trying to get it to pass every year.
RubenWA
in reply to European Commission • • •ionVolution
in reply to European Commission • • •René
in reply to European Commission • • •mike805
in reply to René • • •@muzicofiel If the EU built a chat app it would be the equivalent of WeChat, i.e. heavy surveillance and used for governmental functions and commerce.
What is Signal's plan if the EU decides to demand access? Ideally that would be "don't have nexus in Europe, and tell them if you don't like us block us." But that would put the Signal admins in jeopardy if they ever left their home countries.
BasieP
in reply to European Commission • • •Vervain
in reply to European Commission • • •"While ensuring your private messages remain private"...
Chat Control has entered the chat 👀
GreatLakeTrout
in reply to European Commission • • •The EU is on pace to break end to end encryption for all users this year. There is no going back once this is enacted. It will END online privacy and I am calling on everyone to speak out STRONGLY against government overreach.
computerweekly.com/news/366636…
Privacy will be under unprecedented attack in 2026 | Computer Weekly
Bill Goodwin (ComputerWeekly.com)GreatLakeTrout
in reply to European Commission • • •I will NEVER use WhatsApp anyway. It is owned by Meta aka Facebook. We are really going to trust an app owned by one of the most horrid social “destruction” media platforms in existence???!
Not me
Bene
in reply to European Commission • • •Cadelegi
in reply to European Commission • • •"These rules focus on keeping public broadcasts safe for all, while ensuring your private messages stay private."
EU, you are literally the ones salivating for Chat Control, "private" means nothing if there's a master key to decrypt my messages.
kuro 🇪🇺🔏
in reply to European Commission • • •madame poolhair
in reply to European Commission • • •docD
in reply to European Commission • • •Coq
in reply to European Commission • • •You could also set that it doesn't comply to European laws including #GDPR due to US extraterritorial laws.
#DSA
Tofm2
in reply to European Commission • •