Screenshots, or just adding a journalist to the group chat.

where are the companys lobbying against this btw?? i mean it is their data they will be leaked aswell

There's an explicit clause that exempts politicians from the ban. They get privacy because they need it, but nobody else does.

politicians are very stupid when it comes to tech it seems.

They are so so so stupid, about this.

There will be so much blackmail and ruined political careers if these backdoors get installed.

A backdoor is never solely used by the folks one might hope would use it.

It's understandable from law enforcement perspective that it's important to snoop on actual criminal communications. The EU has pretty reasonable measures and good at cracking down on continental-wide criminal activities. However, can we trust authorities that they won't over reach with the chat control and violate privacy and freedom of speech? Like, come on, nothing good ever came from spying on communications. Catching criminals and/or terrorists is a convenient excuse to spy on dissidents.

We've seen it happen in America with the PATRIOT Act. People dismissed the opposition to it with "nothing to hide" thought terminating cliche, or accuse you of pedophile or terrorist for not wanting spying on communications. Then twenty years later, Americans have a fascist government who allowed a corporate asshole to steal information from the federal government. And those information will be used for surveillance capitalism. The same will happen to us in the EU if we don't push back hard on this Orwellian desires of politicians.