EU Parliament excludes end-to-end chats from message-scanning regime
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The 27 want to establish until 2028 an exception from the electronic privacy directive that allows instant messaging applications to voluntarily analyze citizens' communications to detect pedophile content
The European Parliament has adopted an amendment to the "Chat Control" bill, which would scan communications on social media and messaging apps to combat child sexual abuse content (CSAM), a bill that was previously shelved in March 2026 but has since been revived. This amendment excludes messaging services with end-to-end encryption. Read more...
The institutions are negotiating a Regulation to prevent and combat sexual abuse of children online, known as "chat control".
"In addition to the irresponsibility to provoke a legal void again, it is inexplicable that they have removed from the text the possibility of the authorities having access to messages that show signs of attracting minors"
Today's vote in the European Parliament on extending so-called chat monitoring is, according to the Freedom Party MEPs Petra Steger and Elisabeth Dieringer, a serious setback for citizens' digital privacy. While chat monitoring was adopted overall, a key motion by the PfE group was also passed, explicitly excluding end-to-end encrypted communication from its scope. "That private communication in Europe is even subjected to such blanket suspicion…
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