Matthew GreenThe EU’s “chat control” legislation is the most alarming proposal I’ve ever read. Taken in context, it is essentially a design for the most powerful text and image-based mass surveillance system the free world has ever seen.
This legislation, which is initially targeted at child abuse applications, creates the infrastructure to build in mandatory automated scanning tools that will search for *known* media, *unknown* media matching certain descriptions, and textual conversations.
The legislation is vague about how this will be accomplished, but the “impact assessment” it cites is not. The assessment makes clear that mandatory scanning of images & text, especially in encrypted data, is the only solution the Commission will consider.
Erika Hammerschmidtthe line that breaks my brain is "future productivity of the children." where they let slip that probably the main reason they even claim to care whether kids get abused is that it might make them less effective serfs when they enter the workforce.