Fundamental rights organizations and data protectionists don’t have it easy right now. Despite repeated warnings – including from Austrian child protection groups – the EU Commission sticks to its plan for so-called chat control. In the name of child protection, operators of messengers like Whatsapp, Telegram and Signal will be legally required to mine end-to-end encryption, looking for depictions of sexualized violence against children on their users’ smartphones. Experts fear a development that could jeopardize the digital communication of millions of people and even have a negative impact on child protection.
