Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am more than concerned about your plan to search all messages, emails and chats on all EU citizens’ devices for criminal content and I hereby strongly protest against this form of mass surveillance, which, to my knowledge, has never been seen before in the European Union.

There is no doubt whatsoever that crimes of all kinds must be uncovered and punished. The fact that for this purpose the private communications of all citizens are to be searched without any reason and without suspicion with faulty artificial intelligence and by non-state corporations is completely unacceptable to me.

Crimes must be investigated and solved with methods based on the rule of law. Mass surveillance of the entire population, as known from autocratic states, is a completely wrong way. Criminals will easily find and use alternative communication channels, so that the measure you are planning will fall exclusively on the non-criminal citizen.

I therefore urge you to abandon this project.

With kind regards, …