The European Union is pushing a dangerous surveillance law called “Chat Control” that would force tech companies to scan everyone’s private messages — even those protected by end-to-end encryption.
This proposal would force tech companies to use “client-side scanning” — so your private messages, photos, and files could be read before you send them, opening the door for hackers, corporations, and governments to spy on your data.
If passed, Chat Control won’t just weaken privacy — it will change the way we live online. Private conversations would no longer be private. Trust, security, and freedom on the internet would vanish.
The Mozilla community is urgently calling on EU policymakers to:
Protect encryption: Ensure that end-to-end encrypted services are fully excluded from any broad detection requirements.
Ensure that end-to-end encrypted services are fully excluded from any broad detection requirements. Defend online security: Reject all measures that weaken encryption, violate the integrity of our devices or create new vulnerabilities in digital services.
Reject all measures that weaken encryption, violate the integrity of our devices or create new vulnerabilities in digital services. Rely on expertise: Consult independent experts — cryptographers, child protection specialists, and fundamental rights advocates — to design solutions that are both technically sound and proportionate.
Sign Mozilla Foundation’s petition today to tell the EU: Drop Chat Control. Defend encryption. Protect our digital future.