The dispute over digital letter secrecy in the EU is reaching a new level of escalation shortly before the summer break. After negotiations on Chat Control 2.0 – i.e., the mandatory, suspicionless scanning of encrypted communication – stalled due to persistent resistance in the EU Parliament, the Council of Ministers is now pushing forward with a legal maneuver. The member states want to reactivate the transitional regulation for voluntary monitoring of messages by technology groups, which expir...