Denmark, currently presiding over the EU Council, proposes a major change to the much-criticised EU chat control proposal to search all private chats for suspicious content, even at the cost of destroying secure end-to-end encryption: Instead of mandating the general monitoring of private chats ("de
The idea is that privacy laws in the EU arguably normally make it illegal for messaging providers to even voluntarily scan messages for illegal activity (including child pornography). What’s being proposed is an exemption to that so that they can scan voluntarily.
That is no longer in the realm of governments trying to oppress us, we are now talking about business regulation. It would not prohibit anyone from running their own messaging server or running any software on their own device.
Wish I could believe that, to me it seems like they’re just putting it all in place so later they have an easier time when they transition from voluntary to mandatory.
This is more of a matter of creating a framework to properly share the data with Law enforcement, instead of doing it piecemeal through ad hoc channels