• Data Journalists Investigation: How the EU will scan our WhatsApp and how chat control will work on major platforms. The “key,” encryption, and the dark web.
• Giorgos Pleios to Data Journalists: “The major platforms trade in personal data. These measures are part of a global trend toward the suppression of freedoms.”
• The role of Artificial Intelligence: When it detects a file it judges to be suspicious, it will report it to the Data and Incident Assessment Centre, which will decide whether to refer the case to the authorities of the EU member states.
• The content of communications will be scanned on users’ devices (client-side scanning) before it is encrypted and sent, and this will apply even to end-to-end encrypted conversations. So there will be no such thing as encryption…
• How we got here: The votes and stages in the long-running effort to impose the measure.
• Kostis Pieridis to Data Journalists: “There are grey areas and questions of legality. After September 11th, Security prevailed over Freedom.”
• Enforcement handed to private parties – Cryptography experts sound the alarm.