from Gergely Orosz | by Gergely Orosz

Damning how the EU is trying to quietly pass a bill TOMORROW that would mandate all private communications can be monitored under the pretext of child safety. This would mean forcing backdoors into eg WhatsApp, Signal: or banning those services. Nuts that it is even considered. t.co/cVE9v1IPPf

Read more about what the proposal is. It would enable Orwellian mass surveillance across the EU. Here: t.co/uqHXXWxnRo and here: t.co/spA0vGCV8N The Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Poland are voting against. But without enough countries blocking, it could pass: t.co/hQTS30xNVA

If you are an EU resident that doesn't want their private communications monitored possibly at all times by authorities without probable cause: this is what you can do. I'm dumbfolded that the EU - historically big on personal privacy - is doing this. t.co/gaZzCK0Qop

The obvious this that could follow: If the bill passes, and backdoors are forced into formerly secure communications channels: all these channels become insecure, and attackers can gain access to them much easier. Why e.g. Apple, Signal etc never agreed to add backdoors.