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by littlestymaar 957 days ago
> This enables the government of any EU member state to issue website certificates for interception and surveillance which can be used against every EU citizen, even those not resident in or connected to the issuing member state.

This is already possible though, all a state needs to do for that is to bribe Microsoft[1] like Tunisia did ~20 years ago to include a government intelligence agency's root certificate that can then be used for MitM.

[1] and/or Apple and Google, if they want to target mobile devices as well.