EU Proposes New Law to Allow Bulk Scanning of Chat Messages

The European elections have ended, and the European football tournament is in full flow; why not allow bulk searches of people’s private communications, including encrypted ones? Activists around Europe are outraged by the proposed European Union legislation.

The EU governments’ vote on Thursday in a significant Permanent Representatives Committee meeting would not have been the final obstacle to the legislation that aims to identify child sexual abuse material (CSAM). At the last minute, the contentious question was taken off the agenda.

However, if the EU Council approves the Chat Control regulation later rather than sooner, experts believe it will be enacted towards the end of the difficult political process. Thus, the activists have asked Europeans to take action and keep up the pressure.

EU Council deaf to criticism

Actually, a regulation requiring chat services like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp to sift through users’ private chats in order to look for groo

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