Chat Control: The EU's Plan to Read Your Messages — All of Them
by Drieu Godefridi • December 12, 2025 at 5:00 am
The real issue appears to be the government's desire to control, regulate, police and monitor European citizens down to their smallest gesture.
Are you texting your child or perhaps your bank? Your message is scanned. Sending a prompt to ChatGPT? Scanned.
Communications between lawyers and their clients will be scanned, as will WhatsApp messages with your doctor about erectile dysfunction problems or suspected cancer. By definition, nothing escapes its doting supervision. Everything is suspect. You are suspect.
Nextcloud, a privacy and encryption advocacy organization, warns that the proposed regulation poses "a fatal threat to our democracies". It creates an infrastructure capable of spying on private conversations on a massive scale, making them accessible with a single click to even the most inconsequential civil servant.
This is yet another example of regulatory imperialism characteristic of the incompetent people who run the EU today.
In Europe, the controversy surrounding what is popularly known as the "Chat Control" project — proposed EU regulation officially aimed at combating child sexual abuse material — has, for months, been crystallizing massive opposition on both technical and civic fronts.
The core principles of the legislation are clear:
"Detection software would be embedded in the messaging app or the operating system to scan chat content and automatically forward any material flagged as prohibited to law enforcement agencies."
