CNN Prima News | Surveillance or child protection? Viktor Daněk explains what the proposal on chat control is about

The chance of it being passed is not very high. Similar attempts have repeatedly failed in the past, and it is likely that this specific element of legislation will not succeed this time either.

In some countries, especially in Northern Europe, where the state has traditionally been perceived as having a very strong role and where there is extensive oversight and control, this proposal faced less resistance. The prevailing principle there is more like "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."

But in Eastern and Central European countries, it is different. Here, understandably, there are much more emotional reactions because people have historical experience with extensive state surveillance. For them, intrusion into privacy is a sensitive boundary – the opinion prevails that privacy is simply privacy and should not be violated.

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