"If passed, Chat Control would undermine the privacy promises of end-to-end encrypted communication tools, like Signal and WhatsApp. The proposal is so dangerous that Signal has stated it would pull its app out of the EU if Chat Control is passed. Proponents even seem to realize how dangerous this is, because state communications are exempt from this scanning in the latest compromise proposal."
"Even if you take it in good faith that the government would never do anything wrong with this power, events like Salt Typhoon show there's no such thing as a system that's only for the "good guys." We urge the Danish Presidency to drop its push for scanning our private communication and consider fundamental rights concerns. Any draft that compromises end-to-end encryption and permits scanning of our private communication should be blocked or voted down."
Chat Control would require scanning of private communications and undermine the privacy guarantees of end-to-end encrypted messaging apps such as Signal and WhatsApp. The proposal has prompted threats by Signal to withdraw from the EU and includes exemptions for state communications in the latest compromise. The law would force platforms remaining in the EU to scan messages of EU users, and communications between EU and non-EU users would compromise global privacy. The proposal would enable authoritarian regimes to demand similar access. Mass scanning of devices would turn phones and laptops into surveillance tools and violate fundamental rights, requiring rejection.
Read at Electronic Frontier Foundation
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