Chat Control: protect children? Yes. Spy on everyone? No.
A just cause… a shameful method Protect children from online predators? Yes, a thousand times yes. But monitor every message, every photo, every file exchanged between ordinary citizens? No, never. And yet that’s exactly what Chat Control proposes. Behind reassuring, well-meaning rhetoric, we’re being set up with a scanning machine built directly into our phones, computers and tablets, able to examine every piece of content before it’s even encrypted. The problem is that once this spy is in place, there’s no such thing as truly private communication anymore. It breaks trust in the tools we use every day, and opens the door to blanket surveillance. ...