European governments want more insight into what happens on citizens’ mobile phones. Under the keyword ‘chat control’, the EU states now want to fulfill this wish, which also has the domestic news service DSN. The course is already being set in secret committees.
Since mass surveillance by the US secret service NSA was discovered ten years ago by US whistleblower Edward Snowden, most messengers on smartphones rely on so-called end-to-end encryption – and can no longer see what users send to each other. This is unpopular with government monitors because it deprives them of the ability to look into the messenger apps on citizens’ cellphones. They have been advocating for backdoors in the field of encryption and automatic scans for illegal content for years. Data protection advocates are a legitimate law enforcement tool for researchers, warning against unfounded mass surveillance – and before the EU elections the debate was seen as deadlocked. However, a secret protocol has now emerged showing how a number of EU countries – including Austria – are pushing for the introduction of chat monitoring in a secret committee.
Source: Krone
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