@dangillmor “EU officials” is worth clarifying. This action linked is by EU Council, the representation of member state governments. It could be a terrifying first step in regressing the great progress made in the last decade.

However, the EU Parliament and EU Commission have a strong recent track record of knowing exactly how the technology works and regulating big tech more effectively than any other government. I am hopeful the Parliament will continue to block chat control.

@dangillmor Especially worrying since we’re simultaneously seeing a rise in extreme right wing and even openly fascist ideology becoming mainstream and proponents of these ideas casually being voted into power across Europe.

Soon no one will be safe from the thought police.

@dangillmor @bert_hubert

As an EU civil servant myself, I beg anglophone commentators to finally start making distinctions between:

- National politicians in EU member states (who are driving the above)

- Directly elected EU Parliamentarians (who are the best hope of stopping this)

- EU civil servants who are under orders from…

- European Commissioners (politicians appointed by EU countries and Parliament)

The “EU official” trope is the Brexit way of intentionally confusing above people

@dangillmor

This destruction of #privacy won't hurt real #criminals. It affects everybody else.
Those who use it for criminal activities will keep on using high-order #encrption with #tunneling ordinary #ports.

@dangillmor

"EU officials, who know nothing about how #technology works but know what they want..." 👍 👍 👍 😂

They are still working hard on figuring out their smartphones 😋