Well, that'll be too late then. The EU is preparing to force chat app providers to build an unprecedented espionage and censorship infrastructure on their behalf. (Of course only to fight against terrorism and child abuse! /s)

The EU already allows governments to use spy on their citizens with stuff like Pegasus. They are just making it easier to buy and sell that kind of software.

this is a non sequitur.

Secret services are one thing, police operations and investigations are another, spying your own citizens for the sake of spying them and collecting their data is not allowed in EU, but it happened in US (we have proof) and when it happened in Europe it was US companies doing it (Cambridge Analytica data scandal, to name one, was made possible by Facebook).

There's that.

Stuff like Pegasus is targeted espionage at least, not unapologetic, wanton mass surveillance.