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‘A disaster for online privacy’ — EU plans online chat control that would break encryption, mass scan mobile phones across Europe

The European Commission has published draft legislation which obliges communication service providers such as Telegram and WhatsApp to automatically check individual chats before they are sent, and to install back-doors in smart phones that would bypass encryption safeguards, with some of the most prominent civil liberty and digital privacy groups warning the move would amount […]