Scan Everything, Say Nothing: Germany's Chat Control Deception
Send us Fan MailGermany says it supports targeted measures on private message scanning. Its EU negotiators are pushing for mass surveillance of all private messages in Europe. These are not the same policy. This episode covers: what client-side scanning does to end-to-end encryption; why the child safety framing does not change the surveillance architecture; what the EU AI Act disclosure requirements reveal about the limits of transparency-based governance; and what Pope Leo XIV warning about opaque algorithms has to do with democratic accountability in AI systems. Listen on Spotify, Apple…
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