EU Chat Control
Licking the envelope closed is now mandatory! The old Dutch ‘briefgeheim’ (confidential letter) meant the postal service (and by analogy social media platforms) could not open and read letters. But there were conditions. Postal cards like those that you sent from your holiday location were plain, and openly readable. Those were exempt. That is the current situation for messages online now that the EU has again weakened the ePrivacy directive. The encripted messages that we send are confidential, the others are potentially accessible to anyone. We have to lick the envelope closed, use encryption, for our personal communication to have them private again. As a result of the void in …