“If we, as the EU, can mandate service providers to scan for some content through a backdoor, other states will also be able to say that you have to scan for [something else] through the same backdoor,” says Karl Emil Nikka, an IT security specialist who has debated Johansson on a podcast run by Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. He suggests that other countries could use this backdoor to search for content relating to whistleblowers, abortions, or members of the LGBTQ community.

Johansson stresses that this bill is not about privacy, but…