In the US somebody recently found a way to account powerful people.

It was the one good thing the german liberal party FDP was good for, but they aimed to destroy the coalition from the inside (literally! they made plans and discussion meetings when the best time to destroy it would be). And now they are out and we have the SPD and the Greens left. So one party who really has a hard on for surveillance and the other one who is undecided.

I don't think you get the EU. It's a democracy and everyone can submit proposals.

This is a proposal from pro-Russian Orban from Hungary, and not EU's opinion.

Not when the UK is already a member of Five Eyes.

To answer seriously: unfortunately, the UK is one step ahead with the Online Safety Act. They've already given Ofcom the power to enforce client-side scanning. Ofcom themselves are deciding whether they want to use this power yet and this should happen sometime next year.

First they came for whatsapp. I didn't say anything because I don't use whattsapp.

It would concern all messaging apps, which is beyond stupid. Lol, even nato uses the matrix protocol.

They want to force WhatsApp to scan your private messages on your device.

End-to-end encryption is worthless, when it's done by a company like meta in a closed source project.

Threema really doesn't do a good job of making it easy to switch. For the regular user there is too much that can go wrong and its too easy to lose your chats when migrating to a new phone