Context: Chat Control 2.0: EU governments set to approve the end of private messaging and secure encryption
"By making a minor concession EU governments hope to find a majority next week to approve the controversial 'chat control' bill. According to the proposed child sexual abuse regulation (CSAR), providers of messengers, e-mail and chat services would be forced to automatically search all private messages and photos for suspicious content and report it to the EU. To find a majority for this unprecedented mass surveillance, the EU Council Presidency proposed Tuesday that the scanners would initially search for previously classified CSAM only, and even less reliable technology to classify unknown imagery or conversations would be reserved to a later stage. The proposed βdealβ will be discussed by ambassadors tomorrow and could be adopted by ministers next week."
This is a level of bullshit that will straight up make me vote to leave the EU.
Outlawing E2EE should just not be a thing. It just shouldn't.
As if European state governments aren't also stupid and would come up with this idea.
The EU sucks sometimes but where ever you live in the EU your gov would totally come up with this on their own...
Obviously. The point is that it's the kind of thing that will make me reject the very society I'm living in, and I would change it wholly to avoid this.
If the source was my own government, for the first time in my life, I'd be considering moving to a new country.
Well, this is being implemented in the UK separately so I wouldnt be too hasty
Honestly, they could at least wait and see what happens in the UK before proposing something similar. They literally have a free guinea pig next door.
Not really surprising, though