The EU is advancing a proposal known as Chat Control (client-side scanning). Framed as a child-protection measure, it risks opening the door to something far darker: pre-emptive mass surveillance of all digital communication.
End-to-end encryption once meant your conversations were private.
Client-side scanning undermines this by checking your content before it’s sent.
Once the mechanism exists, scope creep is inevitable. What starts with CSAM will expand.
This isn’t just a tech policy debate. It’s a test of what kind of Europe we want to build.
Do we want systems designed around trust, resilience, and privacy?
Or systems that normalize fear, fragility, and control?
I work with industrial leaders facing similar choices every day. Do they rip and replace? Or do they modernize carefully, preserving what still works while preparing for the future? The same principle applies here. Modernization without disruption means keeping what matters intact. And in society, nothing matters more than our freedom to communicate privately.
✊🏼 Say no to Chat Control.
Write to your MP. Protect what matters before it’s gone.
