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EU “Chat Control” (the proposed Child Sexual Abuse Regulation / CSAR) has been debated through 2025 and could require scanning of messages or client‑side detection that bypasses end‑to‑end encryption,...
The legislative process for the EU’s so‑called “Chat Control” — formally the Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse (CSAR) — hit a sequence of decisive procedural dates in 2025 but the re...
data protection authorities — meaning national DPAs, the and the — act largely as guardians and critics rather than as certifying engineers: they advise, issue guidance, demand impact assessments and ...
Chat Control 2.0 is a revived EU policy drive that would require providers to deploy “detection technologies” — including client‑side or server‑side scanners — to find CSAM, grooming and “suspicious b...
are expanding surveillance capabilities—new laws, travel data regimes and spyware pilots are visible across member states—but powerful legal limits, active courts and civil-society pushback continue t...
The EU’s so‑called “Chat Control” or Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (CSAR) has oscillated between mandatory, interception-style scanning and weaker “voluntary” or consent‑based models; recent Council n...
The available sources describe EU “Chat Control” as a proposal to make platforms scan private communications for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and that lawmakers have repeatedly debated, altered ...
EU member states’ representatives in the Council adopted a common position on the Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse that keeps a temporary exemption allowing voluntary platform scann...