Buterin Slams EU Chat Control Over Privacy Risks

[cryptohog]

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has blasted the EU’s proposed “Chat Control” law, which would force even encrypted messaging apps to scan all private content for child exploitation.

He warned the plan “erodes digital privacy” and creates hackable backdoors. “You cannot make society secure by making people insecure,” he said, urging “common-sense policing” instead of mass surveillance.

Only seven EU states, including Austria and Finland, have rejected the regulation so far; major nations like Germany and Italy remain undecided.

[Nahid Hossen]

Buterin’s warning is clear—mass surveillance backdoors only make everyone less secure.

[Rimon Khan]

Forcing encrypted apps to scan private chats would be a huge blow to digital privacy.