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Re:Chat control: EU Commission presents mass surveillance pl... by everyone on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @01:42PM (#31329979)
I assume some corporations are lobbying for it. So they can harvest more data, and maybe sell the tech that will do this.

In the past some stuff like this has either gotten through of been attempted, and its usually in some trade deal with the US. So apparently the US really wants this all over the world.

Re:Chat control: EU Commission presents mass surveillance pl... by api on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @01:55PM (#31330175)
They could also be lobbying for it simply because it creates more barriers to competition. If this passes you'd never be able to make another chat/IM/etc. startup. Compliance would be crazy complex or expensive or both.

Complex or difficult to comply with regulations are a regressive tax on businesses, impacting smaller or new businesses far more than large ones. The cost of compliance drops with scale.

Re:Chat control: EU Commission presents mass surveillance pl... by mdp2021 on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @02:13PM (#31330429)
There is a difference between having your data intercepted by statal agencies or by having it intercepted by private entities. The latter would be harder, in absolute terms, to justify.

(And still PSD2 has given private entities accesses to dashboards of financial details of individuals - some of us have not yet understood in which terms.)

Moreover, there is a matter of legal boundaries for each involved agent, and also a matter of a will for those legal boundaries to be actually enforced (as opposed to being expressed as an appeasing veneer).