EU Revives Plan to Ban Private Messaging

The EU is inching toward the biggest peacetime surveillance experiment in its history, with plans to quietly search every private message before you hit send.

The European Union is still wrestling with a controversial plan that would turn private messaging services into surveillance tools. For over three years, talks have stalled over whether providers should be forced to scan every user’s messages for possible illegal material and forward anything suspicious to law enforcement.

The European Commission is stil…