Chat Control is not dead. The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos
The “Chat Control” proposal would legalise scanning of all private digital communications, including encrypted messages and photos. This threatens fundamental privacy rights and digital security for all EU citizens.
How do they plan to get past encryption?
They will make it illegal, or they will force mandatory backdoors into it. It will be hacked within days, and they will blame “left wing extremism.”
Probably mandatory scanning on device before encryption. Will destroy all privacy focused apps.
In this case, privacy-focused apps would just not implement it, as it’s the voluntary chat control “1.0” which we already had before. Of course, it would probably be used to eventually have another go at the mandatory scanning again.
Yes, I’m a bit less worried about chat control “1.0” as it at least still allows one to choose services that don’t participate (I seem to recall reading somewhere that no encrypted services actually reported anything under 1.0 but have no source for it). Of course it is still not good.
Biggest problem is that they are also discussing chat control 2.0 that would force privacy focussed apps to basically shut down or comply.
You’ll only have privacy if everyone you talk to also uses a private server and a noncompliant client app that’s relatively hard to get. The chances are that your carefully encrypted texts just get scooped up after decryption at the other end. And if they get it built into mobile OSs so that apps can’t bypass it, even that won’t work.
I guess the only solution then would be to set up your own server with Nextcloud, Matrix etc.
Good ol’ moving the overton window.
The easiest would be to let the OS grab the keys of every connection and transmit them to the government.
For everybody with their own OS, they can use the backdoors on the chips to get the keys.
Or just make life unpleasant for you because you use a different OS, maybe by adding you to a terrorism list.