Today, the European Parliament approved the ePrivacy Derogation, allowing providers of e-mail and messaging services to automatically search all personal messages of each citizen for presumed suspect content and report suspected cases to the police. The European Pirates Delegation in the Greens/EFA
This seems to be the boiling frog technique :)
The the 78% against is of course a very leading question.
A proponent of the law would have probably asked: “do you think Whatsapp should be allowed to search their servers for child-porn and report it to the police if found?”, which would probably result in 78% approval.
But of course this story is a bit more complex with unintended or maybe intended but not openly stated consequences.
Yeah I see your point, it makes sense.