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EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages — even encrypted ones


Privacy advocates aren’t buying it.

Several organizations, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, theCenter for Democracy & Technology, and Mozilla, have also signed a joint statement urging the EU to reject proposals that scan user content. In a statement to The Verge, Breyer also points out that the Belgian Presidency ends later this month, and the country’s current Minister of the Interior has been at the forefront of the chat control bill. Last year, a poll conducted by the European Digital Rights (EDRi) group suggested that 66 percent of young people in the EU disagree with policies allowing internet providers to scan their messages.

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