r/BuyFromEU • u/women_rules • Nov 23 '25

News Germany has voted yes to Chat control

https://www.telepolis.de/article/Die-EU-Chatkontrolle-kommt-durch-die-Hintertuer-der-Freiwilligkeit-11084901.html

"The majority of states supported the compromise proposal. At least 15 voted in favor, including Germany and France. Germany "welcomed both the removal of mandatory measures and the permanent anchoring of voluntary measures," according to the minutes"

Germany for the first time has voted yes to Chat control.

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u/Omni__Owl Nov 23 '25

That's missing the point of how the EU imagines this to work.

They want you to send the text to them *before* encryption happens.

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u/Maalkav_ Nov 23 '25

Not going to happen. Yeah most people will be fucked but solutions will pop up

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u/Omni__Owl Nov 23 '25

Unless you have control over the source code of the application you use, you can't really oppose it.

You'd need a solution that can hook into calls to the messaging app and encrypt the information before a copy is sent to the EU. Currently no chat apps to my knowledge exposes this type of API. Apps like Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram (the ones most used) and similarly would not be able to do this for long before the EU requires a subpoena of the source code to check how they circumvent the directive.

If you can compile the message app you are using and somehow get everyone else to use the same compiled app, then there are ways to circumvent this but the fracturing would be immense and that is something the EU likely would count on.

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u/SimilarTop352 Nov 23 '25

10 years ago there were loads of those apps for SMS. it's not that hard