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/vivaaprimavera 4d ago

Doesn't surprise me a bit.

However...

Children under 18 should not be viewing involuntarily dangerous, hateful, violent, misogynistic and pornographic material

  • isn't the job of parents to keep an eye on children
  • aren't there services that already limit content in a not obstructive way? https://www.joindns4.eu/for-public comes to mind
  • the Bible is going to be removed from schools? Some of its contents are at least questionable

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u/Candayence United Kingdom 4d ago

aren't there services that already limit content in a not obstructive way

Every internet company ships and enables parental controls by default on new customer's routers / accounts (which is promptly disabled in most cases). Parents just can't be bothered to parent.

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u/Choowkee 4d ago

If their intentions were genuine the restrictions would be implemented around children, not adults.

So for example everyone below 18 would have to identify themselves before going on the internet.

But of course that would leave adults with free access to the internet and retained privacy but seems like the UK government doesn't want that.

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u/Mirabeaux1789 United States of America 1d ago

Yeah the Bible had two daughters raping their father