France enters the Matrix

Matrix is effectively a conversation archive in its own right, so no bot is needed to store the messages themselves. In terms of handling freedom-of-information requests for E2E messages: this is an open question currently, given it would of course undermine the E2E encryption. IANAL, but perhaps one solution could be to legally obligate the user to surrender their keys in the face of a FOIA req? Or perhaps if the user archives their history (e.g. for search purposes) somewhere on a trusted device (e.g. a desktop client), this could be be used to service FOIA reqs. But afaik there isn't a conclusion yet on how to address this, and I haven't been involved any discussions about it. (Context: I gave the talk in the article)