The EU’s proposed “chat control” legislation and the UK’s Online Safety Bill are both under the pretext of child protection. Still, they also enable full-scale surveillance of chat communication without probable cause.
That is why seven messenger applications (Element, Session, Signal, Threema, Viber, WhatsApp, and Wire) published an open letter in opposition to the UK’s Online Safety Bill currently in the House of Lords.
To read the letter, head over to Threema’s website: https://threema.ch/es/blog/posts/online-safety-bill