Europe: ChatControl Wants to Scan All Your Private Messages
September 25th, 2025“No, you can’t opt out.”
Mmm hmm.
Here are some open source messengers that offer strong security and do not require phone numbers or email addresses to use.
Via: Metalhearf’s Blog:
The European Union is advancing legislation that could fundamentally change how we communicate online. ChatControl would require all messaging platforms to automatically scan their users’ private messages and images.
Yes, even encrypted ones like Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram. No, you can’t opt out.
This isn’t just another privacy policy update you can ignore. If passed, this EU regulation (strongest and most binding legal instrument in EU law) would automatically apply to all member states without any wiggle room for national interpretation. It would even override constitutional protections for communication privacy and establish unprecedented mass surveillance of private communications.
If the EU collapses in 2026 as predicted by Martin Armstrong, what happens to all its assets, systems and networks? I’d guess that an enemy, without or within, would want to seize and keep them for itself to use.