Chat Control is back! The dystopia train is chugging along.
I don't think "enshittfication" can really cover the magnitude of this one...
Last year the EU's attempt to create a giant surveillance regulation (formerly known as Chat Control 1.0 or Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse) was defeated. However like the good little dystopian Phoenix, it rose from the ashes as a 2.0! Learning from the previous failure, the powers behind it try to make this one pass in a silent and expedited manner. In fact it is expedited so much that next week the MEP's will already vote on it...
If this passes than every message and photo on people's devices in the EU will be constantly scanned! Privacy and private communication will go the way of the Dodo, and this will likely be the new global standard...
More info on: https://fightchatcontrol.eu