WuWeiAug 29, 2025
Watchful Citizen

Politicians carved themselves out of chat control because they know exactly how dangerous mass surveillance is.

If they truly believed scanning everyone's messages was safe and necessary, they'd include their own communications too. Instead: surveillance for citizens, privacy for politicians and police.

They understand the risks well enough to protect themselves. They just think you deserve less protection than they do.

When lawmakers exempt themselves from their own surveillance laws, they're confessing those laws are harmful.

#chatcontrol #surveillance #privacy #e2ee #RootForE2EE

Aug 24, 2025 at 10:51pmWeb
Show threadBert Hubert NL 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦Aug 26, 2025
@watchfulcitizen (except that politicians did no such thing, they are not exempt. Only "national security purposes, maintaining law and order or military purposes". https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2025/07/2025-07-24_Council_Presidency_LEWP_CSA-R_Compromise-texts_11596.pdf I hate the proposal a lot, but let us keep it factual.
Show threadWatchful CitizenAug 26, 2025

@bert_hubert You're right, I was wrong. Politicians aren't personally exempt. The exemption is for state accounts used for national security, law enforcement, and military purposes.

I was misled by this Pirate Party headline.

https://european-pirateparty.eu/chatcontrol-eu-ministers-want-to-exempt-themselves/

Thanks for the correction and source. Though 'national security' is pretty vague language that each member state gets to define. If client side scanning is safe, why exempt anyone at all?

#chatcontrol

#ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves | European Pirate Party

According to the latest draft text of the controversial EU Child Sexual Abuse Regulation proposal leaked by the French news organization Contexte, which the EU member states discussed, the EU interior ministers want to exempt professional accounts of staff of intelligence agencies, police and military from the envisaged scanning of chats and messages (Article 1