By making a minor concession EU governments hope to find a majority next week to approve the controversial „chat control“ bill. According to the proposed child sexual abuse regulation (CSAR), providers of messengers, e-mail and chat services would be forced to automatically search all private messag
Such apps would become illegal in the EU. Imagine breaking the law by using Matrix to chat with your buddies.
No, they wouldn’t. The law aims at making it compulsory for companies to add that backdoor, private individuals can still run whatever software they want, they can’t stop you from running a not-for-profit app from some independent developer that doesn’t relay on servers.