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A "political blackmail" – the EU Parliament is pressing for new mandatory scanning of your private chats


According to the Council Legal Service, the Danish Chat Control proposal still violates human rights

The EU Parliament is pushing for an agreement on the child sexual abuse (CSAM) scanning bill, according to a leaked memo According to the Council Legal Service, the proposal still violates fundamental human rights in its current form The Danish version of the so-called Chat Control could be adopted as early as October 14, 2025 A crucial security feature that the likes of WhatsApp, Signal, and Proton Mail use to scramble users' online communications into an unreadable form and prevent unauthorized access. The also confirms that the EU Council Legal Service still believes the current proposal violates Europeans' fundamental rights as "the core problems of access to communication for potentially all users remained unchanged."

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