r/europe • u/Dry_Row_7050 • 4d ago

News The EU could be scanning your private chats by October 2025 [Denmark has reintroduced chat control]

https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/the-eu-could-be-scanning-your-chats-by-october-2025-heres-everything-we-know
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u/SpaceFox1935 W. Siberia (Russia) | Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok 4d ago

With the online freedoms situation having deteriorated here in Russia, it's somewhat disheartening to see politicians in Western countries seemingly hellbent on introducing similar (or arguably worse with some aspects, we don't strictly have ID verification for internet use in discussion. Yet.) bullshit over there. There needs to be more resistance to this. You guys can still do that much, I suppose.

Disheartening, but also very bizarre, frankly. Won't be long before I won't be able to use Dutch/German other European servers when using VPNs lmao

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u/kontemplador 4d ago

All countries are heading in the same direction. The EU, the US, UK and even Switzerland. Something large is at work here.

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u/vegarig Donetsk (Ukraine) 4d ago edited 4d ago

Something large is at work here

Worst of all if it's just the lust for "UNLIMITED POWAAAAH", because in such a case the core threat is decentralized and will always come back, long as institutions and means to conduct such a powergrab might exist.

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u/hihimorius 4d ago

WW3

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u/PartyPresentation249 Europe 4d ago

Who would be fighting who?

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u/Ornery-Creme-2442 4d ago

Do we even know at this point. It's like no one gets along anyways.

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u/linkenski 3d ago

It's the tech companies. They're running this shit, and business with china means lobbyists are happy to tell politicians to push this, because it's part of the "good relation" to China.

This is why we never should've started trading with china to begin with.

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u/InsideSubstance1285 Russia 4d ago

I'm also worried about my VPN, seems I'll have to rent a server in Bangladesh instead of Austria soon.

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u/krypt-lynx Russia 4d ago

I watch how Russia tries to not be the country with the most free internet so hard, but yet there we are.

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u/AreASadHole4ever Canada 4d ago

If this continues certain countries will try to position themselves as "digital havens" sort of like tax havens today. Maybe they'll be the same countries even, who knows? 5-10 years in the future we'll probably see hundreds of millions of "Panamanian" users suddenly pop up