Fight Chat Control
14 days ago
- #EU
- #privacy
- #surveillance
- The 'Chat Control' proposal mandates scanning all private digital communications, including encrypted messages and photos, threatening privacy and security.
- Automatic scanning of every photo, message, and file without consent or suspicion amounts to mass surveillance for all 450 million EU citizens.
- Breaking end-to-end encryption exposes sensitive communications to hackers, criminals, and hostile actors.
- Undermines fundamental rights to privacy and data protection as per Articles 7 and 8 of the EU Charter.
- Automated scanners often misidentify innocent content, leading to false accusations and damaging investigations.
- Mass surveillance fails to prevent child abuse and makes children less safe by weakening security for everyone.
- Sets a dangerous global precedent for authoritarian governments to implement intrusive surveillance.
- EU politicians exempt themselves from surveillance under 'professional secrecy' rules, creating an unfair system.