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The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025
Chat Control is back on the lawmakers' table
Denmark kicked off its EU Presidency on July 1, 2025, and, among its first actions, lawmakers swiftly reintroduced the controversial child sexual abuse (CSAM) scanning bill to the top of the agenda. We also know that among the objectives of the Danish EU Presidency, there's a commitment to "focus on strengthening the abilities to make use of the digital development for law enforcement when fighting serious crime, while also addressing the misuse of new technologies for criminal or harmful purposes," Denmark's program reads. Encryption is a technology that the likes of WhatsApp, Signal, ProtonMail, and even the best VPN apps use to scramble users' messages into an unreadable form, preventing unauthorized access and guaranteeing that chats remain private.
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