On 28 September 2023 your representatives in the European Parliament will decide on whether to pass bill COM (2022) 209, better known as ‘chat control’.
If implemented, it would allow the EU to force providers of digital communication services to scan all messages from all users of their services, to see if it might, quite possibly, contain anything illegal.
Chat control timeline by @patrickbreyer: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#timeline
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