I seriously hope this won’t go through. Or if so, that it will be stopped by the European Court of Justice, which has saved Europe from multiple similar attacks on the rule of law in the past.
To me, it’s quite conceivable that these repeated initiatives on the whole continent every few years are based on some kind of pressure from five eyes partner states. And someone like that German minister of interior, who has repeatedly proven in interviews that she has no clue about the subject, would of course make for an easy target.
But maybe they are all stupid enough to do this on their own, I wouldn’t be surprised.
This sounds scary How to survive if this will work? Dumb phones are creepy the same as iPhones. For android phone there is at least the possibility to reinstall the system for more reasonable one
Very good question. I am planning to visit UK and I feel not secure for this country to replace stock rom with /e/ os. I would love to replace the system, but at the same time I am worried if it will be working England
/e/OS works fine in the UK. All the chat in this thread is about what may happen in the future - none of it has happened yet, and who know what will happen in the future.
This sounds easy but indeed it will get hard. Already at the moment you are urged to use your smartphone more and more: for any kind of tickets, for accommodation (getting the key), for paying, for online services … for everything. Your smartphone gets more and more functions your personal identity card or passport or your credit card had until now, it’s all in one (and much more). And if you don’t have one you’re an idiot from the dark ages and you will not matter at all anymore. Profiteers will ensure that and politicians will legitimize it, of course the will, and people will elect them because of that. Who’s not for protecting children?
Except oldschool SMS messages are transmitted completely without encryption and since the SS7 networks are fundamentally insecure, going to a non-smart phone will not help you escape government mass surveillance at all.
I’m actually worried it may not just affect the cloud, it might be implemented in a way where messengers will have to include a proprietary binary component where the source code will not be accessible.
Imagine some private company (possibly even US-based) that implements these scanning features having the power to essentially run any arbitrary code inside the messaging applications you use.
IMO a clear decision against the proposal would have been preferable. Avoiding that may actually be the reason why they pulled it.
The good thing is that with the shift towards right-wing parties in the last elections, at least the chance of this passing will be lower. Far right parties are usually against surveillance (at least as long as they are not in power) since there is a good chance it would be used against them.
How to survive if this will work? Dumb phones are creepy the same as iPhones. For android phone there is at least the possibility to reinstall the system for more reasonable one 
