“We can call it a backdoor, a front door, or ‘upload moderation’.” But whatever we call it, each one of these approaches creates a vulnerability that can be exploited by hackers and hostile nation states.”
Amandine Le Pape, co-founder and COO of secure messaging platform Element, expressed similar privacy-focused concerns.
“We’re disappointed in signs that the European Council will be again discussing proposals which would introduce requirements for media scanning, and effectively entail the mass surveillance of Europeans,” Le Pape told CSOonline.com. “Plainly, end-to-end encryption cannot survive this type of requirement.”