I really think it's disgusting to boldly claim this is just to protect children. Then get the proposal denied with very valid reasoning that everyone's privacy would be compromised.

And then, a few months later, they have the exact same argument again with the same proposal as before... This seems deeply disrespectful of the subject matter

It feels like a someone is trying to steal a cookie from a cookie jar, but when mum said no you just try again the exact same way...

hasn't some EU entity just ruled that it's illegal?

edit: yeah https://tuta.com/blog/chat-control

We have to fight them back every time. They only have to get lucky once.

This is why you codify the right in the constitution.

Its the same reason France just added abortion rights to their constitution. They want to makes sure the right is explicit and will never be under threat like this

Its so obvious that ireland, one of the perpetrators of the double irish with a dutch sandwich corpo tax evasion scams, is trying to push for surveilance. That way they can crush any dissent against corpo world rule. Fucking numbnuts.

Looking at this as well https://european-pirateparty.eu/eidas-pirates-dont-support-citizen-surveillance/ the future of privacy looks bleak.

this destroys our digital privacy of correspondence. Despite lip service being paid to encryption, client-side scanning is to be used to undermine previously secure end-to-end encryption in order to turn our smartphones into spies – this destroys secure encryption.

We'll be moving towards local storage + local hard drives backups, since anything that goes through a server or a chat service seems to be under attack. Also fuck the Irish government.