The EU wants to scan every message sent in Europe. Will that make us safer?

European here (French).

The EU and local governments are pissing me off, with their constant mediocrity and will to control (regulate) everything. I think I'm not the only in the tech community, and broader business/entrepreneurial/independent workers.

It feels like there is a political cast constantly trying to assert its power, money and privileges, while the actual management, public services and broader results in comparison to how much the governments taxes are way below par. It feels like a mafia taking "protection" money...

Lawmakers argue that mass surveillance will help to protect children.

yes its always initially about protecting the children. Like the UK CRB checks back in the early 2000's.

Its about protecting our children from sex offenders they said, of course people are going to agree with that, then it grew into having to have a CRB check for working at the local store because children used the store, the gardener sweeping and maintaining the gardens at the GP surgery, the Tree surgeon removing a dangerous branch in a school field, etc etc, all because children attend or go to those sites.

Then they came for the delivery drivers, the warehouse workers, supermarket staff, Airport staff etc etc. Then everyone else. Until every person has to have a CRB check (DBS) even if you dont work with or come into contact with children.

The lawmakers could in fact ban all use of internet connected devices in schools and employ real teachers to teach children. Stop schools using chromebooks and collecting data on our children.

How about parents actually taking responsibility for their own children.

Stop buying surveillance advertising devices for their children.

Do children really need to be on the internet at all.

What happened to playing. you know that wonderful tool that aids in the healthy mental and social development of our children.

I don't understand why they keep trying. This is unconstitutional in some EU countries...

Safer from what? Historically the deadliest threat to Europeans have been the "authorities", accounting for tens of millions of deaths in the 20th century, via wars, repression, persecution of minorities, etc. Not a good track record, and letting them take more and more power for themselves will not end well.

The most baffling is the fact that no news sites talk about this. EU wants to completely undermine security and privacy of every EU citizen and there's not a single beep aside from this one. There's no uproar on social media - /r/worldnews discusses at length everything but the most fundamental privacy breach is somehow missing). Nobody cares. If they get their way, this will spread quickly to other countries because EU is for some reason seen as the good guy and if they do it, we will do it too.

Please write to your representative in the EU Commission. They will ignore you or respond with a templated message full of BS explaining how mass surveillance is good for you (mime did) but at least it's a signal to them.

EU and US are just following the same road they used to blame China for...

.................(quiet part) except for the messages of the people who monitor everyone else, there motives, actual uses of data, who it goes to, who has what kind of.....?layered?feudal?.... access....with the end result that is will be used in the ways it proports to defend against......and of course a total denial of the inevitable Yugoslavian flavored results.

We all know of course that this data is bieng recorded, its though illegal, and therefor unuseable in general day to day, political,legal, and financial schenanigans

interestingly the US is rejecting some of the same types of controls, and perhaps rejecting feudalism as it would amost certainly lead to a civil war in the US, Europe never quite cleaned up its feudal class,which it is habituated to and is vulnerable to bieng sold a re-branded version.

Mafia, Feudalism, Dictatorships, are all heriditary protection rackets, which as it turns out, a large number of people are comfortable with.So, what else?, then?

Eventually Starlink is the only solution. Hiding SL antennas will become big business. Birdfeeders and roof tiles.