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Nov 12, 2025

Chat Control 2.0 "Compromise" Sees Broad Support

Behind closed doors, the revised Danish Chat Control compromise sees broad support. Due to Article 4 and 6 in the proposal, scanning of all messages, including end-to-end-encrypted content, is reintroduced while anonymous communication is outlawed and age verification becomes universal. The legislation now moves to the COREPER for approval before being formally adopted as the Council position

Proposal: https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2025/11/2025-11-06_Council_Presidency_LEWP_CSA-R_Presidency-compromise-texts_14092.pdf

Nov 15, 2025

Mandatory Scanning Excluded
Following significant public opposition, the Danish Presidency has revised its Chat Control compromise text to include recital 17a, which explicitly states that nothing in the regulation imposes detection obligations on providers, thus excluding mandatory scanning. The updated proposal (15318/25) is heading to COREPER and is expected to be formally adopted by the Council on November 18th or 19th, after which trilogue negotiations with the European Parliament will commence.

Nov 26, 2025

Council Endorses Chat Control
All but four countries (Czech Republic, Italy, Netherlands, and Poland) endorsed the revised Danish Chat Control proposal. While the obligation for scanning has been removed, the agreed text nonetheless incentivises service providers to indiscriminately scan private communications.

Patrick Beyer's Analysis: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/reality-check-eu-council-chat-control-vote-is-not-a-retreat-but-a-green-light-for-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance-and-the-end-of-right-to-communicate-anonymously/

Official Press Release: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/11/26/child-sexual-abuse-council-reaches-position-on-law-protecting-children-from-online-abuse/

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by SeriouslyNotSerious2

10 comments

  1. It’s an utter disgrace. At least ALL of Luxembourg’s MEPs had voted AGAINST in the EP. Crazy to see that Luxembourg still voted FOR in the Council…

    Now I’m curious to see how this will impact LuxChat and how they react.

  2. Total control. Those lunatics who wanted to send their “unvaccinated” friends and families to concentration camps during C0vid will be happy!!! F*cked up world.

  5. Honestly as a Dane I feel so ashamed that this proposal was made in Denmark, this kind of state control has until now never been a thing in Denmark.

    Our politicians need to reread 1984 by George Orwell

  6. can someone explain why this is bad? (please don’t just downvote or insult. i just want to understand it before i make an opinion)

  9. Ah yes. As if we need bots and disinformation to make people anti-EU. The EU is plenty good on doing that itself.

  10. Service providers do the scanning? No doubt they’ll rely heavily on AI to look for patterns and we will hear about complete fuck ups happening to innocent people. While I like Post as a service provider, I’d have zero confidence in any provider with this level of power.

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