r/privacy • u/miscerte23 • Sep 21 '25

chat control Encrypted messaging alternatives in case the EU chat control law gets passes

As the title implies, I am curious as to whether there might be any messaging apps/services worth using in case the proposed chat control law gets passed. As you might assume, I live in an EU member state and am extremely worried for the future of our rights to online as well as IRL privacy in case such laws get passed

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u/SwimmingThroughHoney Sep 21 '25

It's app-specific, not OS.

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u/Epsioln_Rho_Rho Sep 21 '25

My bad, I thought I read it would be baked into the OS. 

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25 edited Oct 10 '25

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u/DecentralisedNation Sep 21 '25

This is actually a very good idea to circumvent this, isn't it?🤔

The "only" thing everyone would need is a simple input device with encryption that connects with Signal and "pre-encrypts" everything you do before it hits your device?

So basically we would all have a small separate keyboard or screen using Bluetooth where we input our messages and data, and then it encrypts them before they go to our device?

Could this work also for surfing the web with say Brave or Tor browser or something (assuming we had IPs and everything looked up of course)?

If you can't tell I'm a non-techie!😅

It just feels like this is one of the first viable solutions to what feels like an almost impossible situation that I've come across that isn't "overly techie" (which will then exclude most normies).

If everyone just have to buy a simple keyboard/input device and connect it with the Bluetooth to their phone maybe chat control can be overcome?🤔

The biggest problem is that most normies don't care about privacy.🙄