I don't think German law works that way. Users would have to agree to the change.
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i'm pretty sure there would be an easy case for a federal court class action against companies doing any such thing.
there is a big issue with this in general now, also, with the hyperscaling AI cloud providers with their giant concentrated GPU laden data centers. people are NOT gonna be happy about having the NSA next door in langley to the data center "trust us bro, we won't let the NSA tap our traffic lol"
the normies are starting to wake up to the flagrant violations that have been normalized in secret and only publicly talked about by geeks, since the late 80s lol.
Yeah, I actually think some of this is gonna get rolled back.
That's the neat part, it doesn't have to. The regulation comes from the EU, you don't comply you can't provide the service in the common market.
It's with the users permission, of course. There are no providers offering the service without it though, because is an EU rule. So users can choose not to agree to the pre-encryption scan, but then they can't use any messaging app.
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