Chat Control is being heavily lobbied for by a… spyware company. Cof, sorry, cof, a for-the-good-of-the-children company.

The only error in your post is this "by a… spyware company". There are, unfortunately, more than one company (paying for) lobbying this.

Which would, of course, primarily benefit… spyware companies.

What the MEPs in SEDE mean by spyware in this case is exploit and root kits being deployed by member states Interior/Home Affairs ministries and targeted at MEPs - not "mass surveillance" (which SEDE is largely indifferent about).

Spyware in EP parlance means rootkits and zero-day exploits.

This is largely a result of Predator which was co-developed in Czechia and Israel.

> I'd like to see more MEPs urging the Council to oppose ChatControl

They are exempt, but exemption won't help if they get hit by spyware.

While at the same time we still do not have von der Leyen's FOI dodging SMS messages.

Chat control is not for little dogs. /s