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Laws made by elderly people, who confuse a remote control with a cell phone, to satisfy certain lobbies, whose spokespersons they are.
Even if they manage to carry out this law, until all the chat companies introduce it and the legislators of the different countries manage to introduce it into their own legislation, with the necessary infrastructure and the corresponding bureaucracies, I think that most of us would already be retired. or in a pine box.
Adding that until then there will be zillions of countermeasures available to give them the middle finger.
Until now there is a regulation that allows access to chats with a court order, in case there is an investigation against certain people for crimes. Trying to globalize it to the entire population by default, well, I think I'll wait quietly, with agencies and administrations that still use FAX and Windows XP.