[mywacaday]

I can see a valid use for a version of chat control where the communications of all elected officials are retained forever and audited on a regular basis for doing anything illegal, proposing anything illegal, actions not in the public interest, cronyism etc. All data should be released when they die, 10 years after they leave office or upon conviction of a crime related to political appointment.

[WinstonSmith84]

For what it's worth, politicians are excluded from this law (it's not a joke)

[close04]

Logically it follows that anyone who "has something to hide" will seek the safe harbor of a political position. How many election cycles until all politicians are terrorists and pedophiles?

[fbhabbed]

This alone should have made the law incoherent and impossible to pass

[prox]

Lets all register as politicians then.

[Bombthecat]

Or they just delete the chats

[ciupicri]

Like the messages exchanged between EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla?

[belter]

They should have used S3 Object Lock for her...Since she had already a previous track record of deleting data. When she was the German Defence Minister during the Bundestag “consultants affair” inquiry, data/SMS on her official phones were wiped after they were requested as evidence.

And of course the fact that her husband was working for a Pfizer supplier, while she was sending private SMS to the Pfizer CEO, is of course an incredible coincidence.

And also the current NATO Secretary...

"Dutch PM has been deleting text messages daily for years" - https://nltimes.nl/2022/05/18/dutch-pm-deleting-text-message...

[vixen99]

How is it she's still in a job?

[tehwebguy]

Yes, why would this one be exempt?

[isolli]

Indeed, politicians should not be controlling us; we should be controlling them.

[theoreticalmal]

How do you propose a law that’s illegal?

[Longhanks]

Happens all the time, otherwise, there wouldn't be such a thing as "unconstitutional".

[lan321]

Goes against a higher law, such as the Constitution.

[boxed]

Welcome to Sweden. Public on day one.

[_zoltan_]

can you elaborate? this is news to me.