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The revised “Chat Control” (CSAR) proposal in late 2025 removes the Council’s earlier explicit requirement for mandatory, universal scanning of encrypted private communications but keeps obligations a...
Chat Control 2.0 remains politically contested but technically and legally constrained: the EU Council reached a political agreement on a softened November 26, 2025 text, and the most controversial fo...
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...
Available reporting on the EU “Chat Control” (CSAR) proposal shows no single, settled text requiring providers to scan archived messages sent before the law’s enactment; instead, recent Council amendm...
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...
Facebook (Meta) has long scanned unencrypted content and some non‑end‑to‑end‑encrypted messaging for safety and commercial purposes, but EU “Chat Control 2.0” alarmed critics because it sought to exte...
A Council compromise on "Chat Control 2.0" was reported approved by COREPER on 26 November 2025, shifting from earlier mandatory client‑side scanning toward softer, “voluntary” or mitigation‑oriented ...
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...