The blatant disregard for and violation of the basic rights of hundreds of millions of humans by the few putting forward this proposal is or at least borders on the criminal in my opinion
> Even personal storage that is not being shared, such as Apple’s iCloud, will be subject to chat control
This is new to me. In that case it looks like all services with encryption 'baked in' lose their effectiveness. And that encryption/decryption of text & data needs to be done independently of said service layer to regain privacy.
What if generic encryption apps would integrate with chat apps and the like? According to these rules the chat apps are still required to do scanning, but that will be done on encrypted data which seems pointless.
Unless the rules will be adapted at some point that general encryption needs to be scanned as well, but that would be impractical and undesirable for the EU as well.