The politicians gave themselves an exemption from the scanning. This is just from the top search result but this is widely reported.

“The scanning would apply to all EU citizens, except EU politicians. They might exempt themselves from the law under “professional secrecy” rules” https://nextcloud.com/blog/how-the-eu-chat-control-law-is-a-...

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jbuhbjlnjbn 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

If you think about it this is truly absurd reasoning - they say they want to protect children by introducing this scanning, of course not spy on people, but then politicians are excempt? Why, what could possibly be the reason?

They already openly reveal their true intentions by this excemption.

	▲	latentsea 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Well, statistically speaking like 1% to 2% of EU politicians will be pedos, so my guess is they don't want that to come to light and undermine trust in the government.

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fguerraz 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, but they would be immune from a legal point of view, they would still have to use the same backdoored software.