"Mandatory submission of all private communication to the government" (either govt. employees, contractors, or AI systems running on your device but answering to someone else).
Well, to some international private organization with a completely opaque system that claims to answer to the government.
It's not exactly any of the classes of people on your parenthesis. It's much worse.
- It this a false positive or The Scanner is exfiltrating confidential information?
- Is The Scanner selling all the information to a 3rd party in another country?
- Did a ad actor pay The Scanner to they can get exemptions for their content?
- Alternatively, is The Scanner persecuting somebody through false positives?
The EU won't be able to answer any of those or probably even arrange to investigate it. There is no practical overseeing over that entity.
When the government does something, it imposes some strict rules over the people working on it so that kind of question can be answered. A private organization with no fixed country allows for no oversight at all.
I thought the private institution just provides image hashes from a database of known CSAM?
If a solution is bad enough, it doesn't matter.
Also there's a vast list of things law enforcement does right now, and most of those are better options.
Plenty of people are convicted of CSAM possession/distribution/production without mandatory government scanning of all communication. Unless your tolerance for CSAM/murder/rape is literally zero, in which case we will all live in solitary prisons because that is the only way "solve" this "perfectly".
You can keep asking "what is a better solution", for any crime, until we have literally no rights left.
IMO, the correct answer to this question is "do you think it's appropriate to spy on everyone to fight crime?"
This is about taking away your right to even try to evade even more intrusive spying, despite how much better their ability to spy even without such laws has gotten (instead they publicly claim there's a "going dark" problem).
It'll have to be embedded in the OS so it means you won't be able to run FOSS as you can simply remove the spyware then. Or, if it's done in each app, they'll want to forbid you from sideloading. Ironically that's exactly the thing the EU is forcing Apple to enable now.
Most likely they'll do some kind of evil attestation before you're allowed online, the same way Google is planning to put in Chrome with WEI to stop adblockers.
https://certification.enisa.europa.eu
This would also stifle innovation, create more bureaucracy and a market for paper pushing consulting companies, raise the bar for small companies who can't afford certification expenses, degrade the time to market of ICT producs and freeze ICT products and services in their current state as to not trigger re-certification.
To answer in the most direct way possible: No. No. NO.
Regardless of the intentions, the violation of personal privacy dictates a totalitarian society wherein ALL "deviant" behavior will be monitored & dealt with. That includes LGBTQ+ activities & ethnic minorities.
To put it to the absolute test: Would you be okay if the German SS was able to use mass surveillance for their own version of "fighting crime"? The answer to this question will dictate the answer to the extreme scenario that the State always trends towards, wherein more & more power is accumulated by the State under the guise of safety & security.
What is the difference between that and demanding to read all our correspondence?
Or if you want to claim that you don't, perhaps you should try proving a negative and convince us of your innocence - before you support a standard of everyone being forced to do so.