I'm so tired of these...

Is there really no way we can make it technologically impossible for them to exfiltrate user data?

Feels like we're headed back towards governments attempting to control the sharing and usage of cryptographic algorithms again.

Whenever these people ask for more power in order to "stop/prevent crime", there should be a bot that replies a list of times when the police didn't act to stop crime, despite having full knowledge of the crime occuring and potential to stop it from happening.

EU member and supporter of Chat Control, Romania, had a massive scandal where a kidnapped 15 year old girl called emergency services multiple times to report she was being kidnapped, every single time, the operators and the police officers spoke to her in an ironic and condescending tone. It took 19 hours to locate her, by which time, she was already dead. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Alexandra_M%C4%8...

The people who hate Europeans are hard at work again, hoping they can prevent the backlash for their evil deeds this time.

What is strange is that this happens in several countries at the same time.

I never found out why this is the case, because there can be many explanations. In general the global tendency is that the more and more digital data is there, the more and more states want to surveil people and invade onto their privacy. This is functional erosion of rights. I don't know of many states that counter that trend.

Ireland wants to turn their police into the CIA.