Announced chat control by the EU

Henning Follmann hfollmann at itcfollmann.com
Sat Oct 4 14:06:37 CEST 2025




> On Oct 4, 2025, at 07:53, Martin <martin at postzone.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
…
> My question would be, what will actually happen to GnuPG if the EU's announced and threatened chat control really comes into effect? What impact will this have on encrypted emails? Will GnuPG still have a future, and if so,
…
IANAL, so …

If I understand correctly, this applies to provider with a certain number of customers.
But your “individual” use of encryption is not affected by this ( how could your provider compel you to hand out the private key ).
But of course all the metadata is free game.

-H





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