Chat control 2.0 on every Smartphone

"On 11 May 2022 the European Commission presented a proposal which would make chat control searching mandatory for all e-mail and messenger providers and would even apply to so far securely end-to-end encrypted communication services. Prior to the proposal a public consultation had revealed that a majority of respondents, both citizens and stakeholders, opposed imposing an obligation to use chat control. Over 80% of respondents opposed its application to end-to-end encrypted communications."

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

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"Envisaged are chat control, network blocking, mandatory age verification for communication and storage apps, age verification for app stores and exclusion of minors from installing many apps"

"In practice, age verification involves full user identification, meaning that anonymous communication via email, messenger, etc. will effectively be banned. Whistleblowers, human rights defenders and marginalised groups rely on the protection of anonymity."

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#currentproposal

KYC surveillance, censorship and AI-policing Internet.

"Automated disclosure to POLICE authorities and non-governmental organisations."