[cooperation-wg] EU's Chat Control 2.0: a feedback from RIPE?

Peace,

A new legislation proposal, dubbed Chat Control 2.0 but formally a
"Proposal for a Regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child
sexual abuse”, is now being discussed in the European Parliament.

Under the conditions of Chat Control 2.0, messaging platform providers
would be required, with no option to abstain, to search data on every
customer's phone, including private peer-to-peer chats and e-mails, and
send potentially law-breaking (as determined by vague algorithms) pieces of
data to authorities for examination.

The proposal is explained in more detail here:
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

This is marginally relevant to specifically the Internet provider
community, but is largely relevant to the tech community in the EU, because
this initiative could be seen by many (including myself) as an attempt on
mass surveillance which is violating the fundamental privacy rights of the
EU citizens.

My question to the coop-wg in that case would be, does the working group
see merit in providing feedback on this proposal to the members of
parliament, from the tech community standpoint?

-- 
Töma
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