[auveair]

> Why is the EU regulating privacy topics to the point were we no longer have access to certain social media products, while they are also pushing for backdoors into private messengers?

Backdoors are from national governments (Macron in France, Sunak in UK). Privacy stuff is usually from the EU parliament, elected by people proportionally but cannot propose laws, only vote on them.

[pmontra]

Only the Commission can start a new law but the Parliament can amend proposed legislation. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/en/powers-an...

[alipang]

No? https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366537312/Chat-control-E...

[cccbbbaaa]

And, as the article says, this proposal is likely to be illegal under the ECHR and the CFREU.