Giving platforms access to private user messages would permanently “weaken end-to-end encryption," Internet Society Senior Government Affairs and Advocacy Advisor Callum Voge writes for Euractiv. Voge said the EU Commission’s proposal for enabling messaging platforms, such as Signal and WhatsApp, to view users’ private messages to screen for child sexual abuse images would be “a disastrous outcome” that will “harm the internet” and “undermine the security and privacy of every internet user … including the children the legislation seeks to protect.” He said once encryption is broken, all communications would be exposed to governments and third parties.