EU To Vote On ‘Chat Control’ - Civil Deadline
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Currently, providers of chat services are not allowed to search for abuse representations of children. This legal gap should be closed again.
In fact, the EU Parliament is voting against the scanning of private chats on child pornographic content. However, the President of Parliament brings the issue back to the agenda after criticism - an action, as controversial as chat scanning. Now a decision has been made.
Members of the European Parliament are voting today on whether messenger services can search private chats again in certain cases. The so-called chat control is about an exception to the data protection rules.
After being stopped earlier this year, the controversial Chat Control returns to the European Parliament. The proposal, which aims to strengthen the fight against sexual abuse of minors online by detecting...
"As a CDU/CSU parliamentary group, we are opposed to the indiscriminate control of chats, said Jens Spahn in October 2025. "That would be so, ... The post "As if you opened all letters": Despite the rejection in the CDU, the EPP wants to resume the chat control appeared first on Apollo News.
The European Parliament had already decided. By a resolution adopted in April 2026 it rejected the Commission's proposal to extend the regulation allowing, even on a voluntary basis, the scanning of private communications by digital platforms to detect sexual abuse material on children. Not only that, it invited the Commission to withdraw [...] The article Chat Control, thus the EU Parliament overturns itself and delivers our conversations to Bi…
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