WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears | Computer Weekly

https://lemmy.ml/post/18492289

WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears | Computer Weekly - Lemmy

Meta has all the power here. WhatsApp is ubiquitous in the EU. If they just shut it down, so many systems would be utterly fucked. They have to walk it back.

But I’m sure they don’t have the balls and don’t care, they’d just point at the gov and say “they made us do it!” while collecting all your message info and exploiting it for profit.

UK… Not EU… Haven’t you heard of Brexit? They wouldn’t be allowed to do shit like that in the EU.
The EU is literally trying to do it right now: theverge.com/…/eu-chat-control-law-propose-scanni…
EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages — even encrypted ones

Lawmakers in the European Union have proposed legislation that would mandate the mass scanning of digital messages, including encrypted ones.

The Verge
afaik that law got snuffed out