📣Official statement: the new EU chat controls proposal for mass scanning is the same old surveillance with new branding.

Whether you call it a backdoor, a front door, or “upload moderation” it undermines encryption & creates significant vulnerabilities

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/upload-moderation.pdf

@Mer__edith It’s almost reassuring, in a way, that they keep trotting this out: it acts as a warrant canary letting us know the intelligence agencies haven’t broken encryption yet. Once they stop asking for it we should start asking questions ☺️