> In 2023, a change was proposed to eIDAS that would allow any EU government to surveil all internet communication, even when encrypted.[..]
> The proposal would force internet companies to place a backdoor in web browsers to let them perform a man-in-the-middle attack, deceiving users into thinking that they were communicating with a server they requested, when, in fact, they would be communicating directly with the EU government. The EU government would then read and change their messages before passing the possibly modified message on to the intended recipient.