The EU’s “chat control” legislation is the most alarming proposal I’ve ever read. Taken in context, it is essentially a design for the most powerful text and image-based mass surveillance system the free world has ever seen.

— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) March 10, 2023

I thought the US had come up with some surveillance nightmares. But that is beyond the most Orwellian of Orwellian nightmares there.