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‘Chat control’: The EU’s controversial CSAM-scanning legal proposal explained
The European Union has a longstanding reputation for strong privacy laws. But a legislative plan to combat child abuse — which the bloc formally presented
The Commission’s initiative focuses on regulating digital services — principally messaging apps — by putting a legal duty on them to use technology tools to scan users’ communications in order to detect and report illegal activity. “Chat control” is the main moniker they’ve come up with to encompass concerns about the EU passing a law that demands blanket scanning of private citizens digital messaging — up to and including screening of text exchanges people are sending. And it’s clear that, since the use of E2EE means such platforms do not have the ability to access readable versions of users’ communications — because they do not hold encryption keys — secure messaging services would face a specific compliance problem if they were to be legally required to understand content they can’t see.
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