The "Chat-Control" EU law proposal is supposed to protect children, but it is obvious that it cannot be effective in its official purpose: there are already and will be many ways to evade surveillance like CSS for those who really want to. might achieve a devastating side-product, the dream of any authoritarian regime: the criminalization of privacy, which would lead to the end of freedom as we know it. "1984" was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.