EU Chat Control Rejected: What Protects Your Privacy Now
The European Parliament rejected Chat Control 1.0 this week. It would have forced Signal and WhatsApp to scan every private message. Quick verdict: it’s a genuine win for end-to-end encryption. But here’s the catch that almost every news outlet missed. Still, your ISP is watching. And the EU’s ePrivacy Regulation still lets them. What Just Happened With EU Chat Control Chat Control 1.0 was an EU rule. It would force messaging apps to scan all user content — even encrypted messages — for CSAM. So it sounds reasonable on the surface. But privacy researchers and EDRi spotted a big problem. ...