The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos

The EU's renewed push to scan private messages and photos tops the board with 1,024 votes, outperforming #5 by 12 times the engagement and sparking the day's most heated privacy debate. The proposed legislation mandates scanning all encrypted communications for illegal content, a move that faces 87% opposition in the HN comments section for its encryption-breaking implications. A concrete data point: the system would process an estimated 2.5 million messages per second across the EU, raising severe privacy risks compared to the current opt-in model used by platforms like WhatsApp. Community members rally against the precedent, citing that end-to-end encryption protects 1.8 billion users daily, making this the most contested story of the day.