Finland has now joined the ranks of Austria, Poland and the Netherlands in rejecting chat control, the proposed EU law that would threaten encrypted messaging and eliminate privacy in private communications.
The Ministerial Committee on EU Affairs elaborated on its previous positions and noted that Finland still considers it very important to establish an EU-level legal framework to improve the detection, reporting and elimination of sexual violence against children in the EU. However, Finland cannot support the most recent compromise proposal because it contains a detection order that has been found problematic from a constitutional standpoint.
We need more resistance against this incredibly dangerous law - we cannot allow totalitarianism to creep in through a phony "save the children" narrative. If they wanted to save the children they would start with what is happening in the open at Instagram and Tiktok, not by attacking secure channels of communication.
https://chatcontrol.eu/ contains some information about how you can pressure your representatives to oppose this law.
@cabbage it would be better to argue it violates EU treaties/charters than only national constitutions
I would be surprised if people weren't already thinking about that. If it passes I wouldn't be surprised if we ended up with an annulment action before the Court of Justice. Hopefully it won't come to that. :)