EFF strongly opposes the proposal by the Belgian Presidency at the EU Council, highlighting the dangers of scanning private files and the violation of end-to-end encryption, urging Ministers to reject such inconsistent proposals.
EFF has been advocating for the protection of end-to-end encryption rights since 2022, resisting the insertion of backdoors in encrypted communications under the guise of child protection.
The EU Parliament's civil liberties committee made significant amendments to protect end-to-end encryption in response to the potential violation of human rights posed by client-side scanning.
Civil society groups, including EFF and EDRi, have raised concerns about the lack of transparency in the debate on the Belgian proposal, emphasizing that users may be restricted from sharing content if they resist scanning.
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