He’s also not “fighting child abuse in the EU”, he is lobbying for mass surveillance. Europol and the BKA (German federal police) already said that they would like to use the technology for others crimes. Especially in Germany, laws that were meant to fight child abuse or terrorism were actually used to hunt down small weed dealers and relatively harmless political activists (while over 600 nazis with open arrest warrants roam free).

The best comment I read on this topic was “Before AI replaces us, our customers must first learn to precisely formulate what they actually want. We’re safe.”