Dispatches from the future: The first year of Chat Control

Extrapolative fiction by Jeremiah Lee imagining headlines from the first year after the EU adopts mass scanning of private messages.

Dispatches from the future: The first year of Chat Control is a thought exercise written, designed, and coded by Jeremiah Lee. It imagines the consequences if the European Union passed a proposal to scan photos and videos people send for potential child abuse. The proposal is real, but the article is extrapolative fiction built from real statements presented in new contexts.

Mattias Axell contributed to the project with feedback on the Swedish translation and by translating the text from English to Swedish, published as Rapporter från framtiden: Det första året med Chat Control.