On one hand EU does things like this^ to protect their people (like right-to-repair stuff, also made apple use USB-C instead of lightning and whatnot)
but then they try to implement severe privacy-invading shit like chat-control, what's happening?
but then they try to implement severe privacy-invading shit like chat-control, what's happening?
It's a distributed democracy.
Maybe only distributed. /s
Also our government (I'm a citizen in the kingdom of Denmark) doesn't listen to experts when it comes to IT/security/encryption and is making a fool of itself..
It will pass.
Once you get that, a lot of thing start to make sense.
Of course, people are free to claim that it won't work, or that it's heavy handed, or that it's secretly nefarious, but there is a plausible answer to "why?" in the title itself.
Then regulation like unified digital id is big business, the EU is a neoliberal institution, most of everything their member states governments do is through public-private partnerships, there is profit to be made. So investments in things like age verification are funneled to lobby for them. The EU in general is almost as big in lobby spending as the US.
The other thing is the US intel easily gets a full plaintext feed from things like whatsapp, but the EU needs chat control/etc. to get the same access.