Chat Control 1.0 has been passed
The European Union has renewed a controversial rule allowing for the voluntary scanning of private communications for child sexual abuse material. Critics argue that proposed future versions of this law threaten end-to-end encryption and fundamental privacy rights.
Why it matters
The debate highlights the ongoing tension between digital privacy, encryption standards, and government efforts to combat illegal content online.
Chat control is a EU rule that wants to mass scan all private comunications including E2E encrypted ones
Chat control is an EU proposal that was temporarily accepted on its version 1.0. This rule allowed tech companies to voluntarily scan unencrypted messages (Discord, Gmail…) for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and it expired on April 2026. After that the version 2.0 was proposed and it was way worse as it wanted to implement this mass surveillance on E2E encrypted comunications. This breaks the point of E2E encryption and since it’s on the client it can probably be bypassed in some way. This proposal also violates fundamental privacy rights of all European citizens and we need to stop this.
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