“After the Commission acknowledged to the EU Ombudsman that it, in fact, had such a list, but failed to disclose its existence to Dr Kris Shrishak, the Ombudsman held the Commission’s behaviour constituted “maladministration”.”
More than 450 academics say scanning encrypted messages for CSAM is not technically feasible and won’t be for two to five years. The Commission says its experts disagree, and it won’t name them. It hid the list from a document request until the Ombudsman forced it to admit the list existed. When your case for breaking encryption rests on secret experts, you don’t have a case.