Comment by graemep
13 hours ago
> I laughed at this, as an european. I mean just this year we've had like 3 scares with chat control,
Chat control is an EU thing. The article is about a move to Proton which is Swiss and therefore outside the EU and not directly affected by chat control or other EU laws. Of course the EU might make it illegal for them to supply their services to EU countries, but then no platform anywhere can avoid that problem.
On the whole EU govt surveillance (assuming you live in the EU) is better than EU govt surveillance plus US govt surveillance plus big tech surveillance.
Proton already announced earlier this year that they are leaving Switzerland due to legal uncertainty and relocating their physical infrastructure to Germany, which obviously is in the EU.
Have they moved yet? If not they are not EU yet.
Its also interesting that they have chosen specific EU countries and the differences between countries does matter.
What happens if, as is probable, the EU brings in similar laws?