This story scares the bejesus out of us.

Not to be outdone by the creeping surveillance state in Britain, the EU is now seriously considering a proposal that would essentially end all private, encrypted messaging by requiring that all messages be scanned by the government in the name of safety.

This seems dangerously Orwellian to us. We wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if politicians here in the U.S. tried to import this Big-Brother-is-watching idea to these shores.