Not to be a downer but I’ve talked with a deputy of the European Parliament that opposed chat control and they were getting so many emails that they just had to create a filter to immediately get rid of these emails as otherwise their email inbox would just get full and they literally couldn’t work (as they wouldn’t be able to receive other emails).

And this is from someone that is on our side. I assume that people that are actually for this bill will be getting blasted even more and will care much less, so I’m not sure how much are emails effective.

Only improvement would have been to translate the texts to the local languages (and maybe make the text shorter). Maybe also add each recipient as BCC instead of them all being able to see each other

But all in all it's a great help!

If my understanding of the legislative EU process is somewhat correct, this effectively leaves it up to the countries to decide (as EU laws just mean that countries have to pass a law enacting it).

It's not rare to phrase laws this way in germany at least. It's not necessarily bad, as it allows court interpretation to change alongside societal values. In this case it would likely lead to only some countries actually passing mass surveillance laws (it's pretty unambiguously unconstitutional in a bunch, which makes it clear that mass surveillance is not "reasonable". Not that that always stops legislators, but it would at least die before the highest court eventually).

So we still need to fight it, because it's the first line of defense. Really what we need to push for would likely be explicitly disallowing blanket scanning of communication on the EU level, or proposals like this will happen again and again.

Yeah that seems like something that can't be put into a law. Well normally.

I think I may have written that, but that was when all that was being talked about was allowing services to scan voluntarily. There was no mention of "all appropriate risk mitigation measures" when I wrote that.