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   A "political blackmail"  the EU Parliament is pressing for new mandatory   
   scanning of your private chats   
      
   Date:   
   Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:49:40 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   According to the Council Legal Service, the latest Danish Chat Control   
   proposal still violates human rights  but the Parliament pushes for an   
   agreement to be found.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   According to a leaked memo, the EU Parliament is pushing to reach an    
   agreement on the disputed child sexual abuse (CSAM) scanning proposal.    
      
   As reported by digital rights group Netzpolitik , during the meeting held on   
   July 11, the Parliament threatened to block an extension of the current   
   voluntary scanning interim regulation  a temporary law that enables messaging   
   providers to scan their users' chats if they wish so  unless the Council   
   agrees to mandatory scanning.    
      
   "This political blackmail forces a bad choice and contradicts the    
   Parliament's own stated position against mass scanning ," former MEP for the   
   German Pirate Party, Patrick Breyer, told TechRadar.    
      
   Denmark has reintroduced the controversial bill on the first day of its EU   
   Presidency. Now, new obligations for all messaging services in Europe to scan   
   users' chats could be adopted as early as October .   
      
   "A more radical version"    
      
   First proposed in May 2022, what critics deemed Chat Control aims to halt the   
   spread of CSAM content online by scanning all communications, especially   
   encrypted ones.    
      
   Over the years, however, the proposal has seen some twists and turns as   
   privacy advocates, technologists, and even politicians raised concerns.    
      
   Experts are especially worried that these new scanning obligations will end    
   up undermining encryption protections. A crucial security feature that the   
   likes of WhatsApp, Signal, and Proton Mail use to scramble users' online   
   communications into an unreadable form and prevent unauthorized access.    
      
   As per its first version, all messaging software providers would be required   
   to perform indiscriminate scanning of private messages to look for CSAM. The   
   backlash was strong, with the European Court of Human Rights proceeding to    
   ban all legal efforts to weaken the encryption of secure communications in   
   Europe.    
      
   In June 2024, Belgium proposed a new, more compromising text to target only   
   shared photos, videos, and URLs, with users' permission. In February 2025,   
   Poland tried to find a better compromise by making encrypted chat scanning   
   voluntary and classified as "prevention."    
      
   Yet, according to Breyer, the Danish proposal is the "more radical version"    
   so far. "This proposal includes the mandatory mass scanning of private   
   communications and aims to break secure encryption by forcing client-side   
   scanning into your messaging apps. Tellingly, government and military    
   accounts will be exempt from this intrusive and unreliable scanning," he   
   explains. Leak: Many countries that said NO to #ChatControl in 2024 are now   
   undecidedeven though the 2025 plan is even more extreme! The vote is THIS   
   October. Tell your government to #StopChatControl!Act now:   
   https://t.co/vmOjnucT9i pic.twitter.com/DmfUqn5amk July 31, 2025    
      
   The leaked memo also confirms that the EU Council Legal Service still    
   believes the current proposal violates Europeans' fundamental rights as "the   
   core problems of access to communication for potentially all users remained   
   unchanged."    
      
   Moreover, many countries that opposed Chat Control in 2024 seem to be leaning   
   towards an agreement. The nations welcoming and supporting the Danish    
   proposal include Italy, Spain, and Hungary. France also said that "it could   
   essentially support the proposal."    
      
   Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Slovenia, Luxembourg, and Romania   
   currently remain undecided or in need of a review with their local    
   parliament.    
      
   All the governments need to finalize their evaluations by September 12, when   
   the next meeting is set to take place. The goal, however, is to finally   
   deliberate on the bill on October 14 (see page 31 of the agenda ).    
      
   What's certain is that the push for having legal access to citizens'    
   encrypted data is a major priority for EU lawmakers. At the end of last June,   
   the EU Commission also published the first step within its ProtectEU    
   strategy, which looked to enable law enforcement bodies to decrypt your   
   private data by 2030.   
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/a-political-blackmail-the-e   
   u-parliament-is-pressing-for-new-mandatory-scanning-of-your-private-chats   
      
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