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The EU wanted to oblige messaging apps
to scan their chats for abusive material.

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The proposed draft regulation on preventing
and combating the sexual abuse of children

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(CSAR - Child Sexual Abuse
Regulation) is also known as chat control.

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Messenger services such as WhatsApp, Signal or
Telegram would have been obliged to search

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and analyze content locally on private devices.

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This would circumvent the encryption that previously
ensured that only the sender and recipient could read a message.

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The draft was met with fierce criticism and
mandatory scanning was stopped by Germany, among others.

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Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig formulated the
government's position very clearly: "Unprovoked chat

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control must be taboo in a constitutional state."

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The Data Protection Conference - an association of data
protection authorities in Germany - also explicitly

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called on the German government to reject the chat control.

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The EU Parliament is now set to vote on a
negotiating mandate for a new CSAR Directive in June 2026.

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In a speech to the EU Parliament, German
MEP Christine Anderson warned against this,

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that social media bans for under-16s are merely a
pretext for linking online activities to a digital identity:

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"The EU wants to scan private messages sent from your cell phone.

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Ostensibly it's about illegal material on the internet,
but in practice it means scanning everything people say.

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This would inevitably require the
identification of each individual user by means of

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a digital ID. This is called surveillance.

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And the surveillance of one's own citizens is a
practice known above all from totalitarian regimes."

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See also the program: Resistance now! The
digital ID and its terrible consequences!