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EU Chat Control law is a step towards mass surveillance
The EU’s controversial Chat Control Law is back on the spotlight. The current Danish presidency of the Council of the European Union has chosen to throw considerable political capital at it; so much…
However, the method championed by the Brussels mandarinate, which effectively mandates the scanning of private communications, including those currently protected by end-to-end encryption, poses a severe threat to personal privacy, national sovereignty, and the EU’s supposedly most sacred principles. Two years ago, digital autonomy advocates like the Electronic Frontier Foundation warned that such policies could normalise surveillance worldwide, weakening protections for millions and considerably strengthening the apparatuses of tyrannies the world over. A year ago, Europol noted in a report that sophisticated criminals often use secretive, unregulated platforms, rendering mass scanning ineffective against the intended targets while burdening ordinary citizens with the full weight of a repressive Leviathan.
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