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EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0, will be in effect until 2028, but the battle isnāt over yet
Today, the European Parliament allowed the suspicionless mass scanning of private communications ("Chat Control 1.0") to pass, a measure it
āToday, the European Parliament allowed the suspicionless mass scanning of private communications (āChat Control 1.0ā) to pass, a measure it had rejected twice in March.
Although a majority of voting Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) actually opposed the regulation (314 against, 276 in favor, 17 abstentions), the motion to reject it failed to secure the required absolute majority of 361 votes.
As a result, mass scanning is now permitted again until 2028.ā
āA symbolic exemption was adopted for encrypted communicationsāthough in practice, service providers do not scan these anyway.
Furthermore, while a majority of voting MEPs wanted to restrict the scanning of private communications strictly to suspects identified by the judiciary (322 to 255 votes), this amendment likewise fell short of the required absolute majority.ā
Dr. Patrick Breyer, civil rights activist and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP), warns of the consequences:
āThe fact that Chat Control is moving forward against the will of the majority of voting MEPs is a farce and damages democracy. Our children are the real losers in this undemocratic process.
The passage of a genuine, permanent child protection regulation is now in serious jeopardy. The Council will never agree to a desperately needed paradigm shift as long as they can simply stick to the old approach of suspicionless scanning at the whim of the tech industry.ā
Despite the legislative defeat, Breyer remains defiant regarding the upcoming negotiations:
āTodayās vote on the interim regulation was a setback, but the political battle over the permanent āChat Control 2.0ā is just getting started.
The resistance we saw in Parliament today was so strong that finding a majority for permanent, suspicionless mass scanning in future negotiations is a complete pipe dream.ā
whatās next?
āThe interim regulation passed today will remain in effect until 2028, or until an agreement on a permanent regulation is reached. Negotiations for the permanent law will resume in September.
The core dispute between the EU Parliament, member state governments, and the EU Commission remains the scanning of private chats: should it be indiscriminate, or targeted at criminal suspects?ā
āTalk of averting a āprotection gapā is therefore highly misleading.
The most effective law enforcement toolsācourt-ordered wiretaps, user reports, and the scanning of public platforms and cloud storageāwere never at risk and remain fully intact.
The only practice that was temporarily banned since April was the indiscriminate, warrantless searching of private, unencrypted messages of innocent people on a handful of US platforms.ā
talks over permanent
āIn parallel, negotiations are ongoing for a permanent regulation to protect children from sexualized online violence (the āCSAM Regulationā or āChat Control 2.0ā)
In these talks, the EU Parliament is pushing for a paradigm shift in how we approach online child safety, demanding:
Mandatory, targeted detection orders against actual criminal suspects, rather than blanket mass scanning left to the tech industryās discretion.
An EU Child Protection Centre tasked with the systematic removal of known abuse material from the public internet.
Strict security standards for messaging apps (āSecurity by Designā) to prevent cyber grooming.ā
This permanent legislation has stalled because EU member states insist on maintaining the outdated approach of voluntary, suspicionless scanning of private communications.
Critics warn that repeatedly extending the interim rules removes the political pressure needed to reach a viable, permanent agreement.
Ultimately, clinging to the status quo threatens to derail real progress on child protection.
Patrick Breyer sums up the problem:
āAs long as EU governments can use procedural loopholes to continually extend their comfortable status quo of voluntary, indiscriminate mass scanning, they have zero incentive to engage with the Parliamentās targeted, legally sound, and far more effective child protection strategy.
āThe Voices of Survivors: āWe need privacy to bring abusers to justiceā
Survivors of sexual violence explicitly emphasize that untargeted Chat Control did not help victims:
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