@felixernst, remember how you told me that the EU's privacy situation isn't as bad as I thought? Look at how quickly things can change...
The EU Commission’s New Proposal Would Undermine Encryption And Scan Our Messages
And, once again, none of the privacy projects such as Tor, Matrix, Telegram, or Signal appear to be informing their EU users, who may otherwise remain unaware until it is too late...
Come on, speak up! Even if you don't have the resources to implement per-region banners on KDE websites as I suggested, please at the very least write a blog post or an announcement explaining the danger and urging other projects to raise the alarm as well.
P.S. I'll never understand Westerners. Countless oppressed people throughout the world hunger for the freedom to communicate and organize without fear of retaliation, and you have the power to help them. Censorship circumvention, for example, is only possible because of the Web's thorough integration of encrypted Western protocols.
Imagine if you also gave vulnerable folks PCs that aren't full of places for spyware to hide and survive OS reinstalls, inexpensive smartphones that are secure and aren't locked into outdated Android versions, and so on...
And yet, even when your own privacy is on its last legs, you seem to have little desire to protect it. Perhaps, like climate change, the majority of people are incapable of caring about mass surveillance unless it directly affects them...
If so, I hope Roe v. Wade is overturned, since it may be our last chance to avoid 1984 becoming reality. Perhaps when innocent US women start being persecuted for seeking abortions based on their online behavior, the current generation of Westerners may finally realize that, yes, government tyranny can happen to THEM, and that privacy is essential when things go wrong. But I'm not holding my breath...