{"id":483155,"date":"2025-10-08T14:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T14:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/483155\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T14:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T14:27:11","slug":"germany-will-not-support-chat-control-message-scanning-in-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/483155\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany will not support &#8216;Chat Control&#8217; message scanning in the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph\"> German officials on Wednesday said they will vote against a European Union proposal to allow the scanning of private messages even on end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms, signaling that the bloc will not have the votes to move forward with a controversial measure known as Chat Control. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"> \u201cRandom chat monitoring must be taboo in a constitutional state,\u201d German Federal Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig said in translated remarks <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bmjv_bund\/status\/1975846115263312139\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted<\/a> to social media by the ministry. \u201cPrivate communication must never be placed under general suspicion.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"> &#8220;Germany will not agree to such proposals at the EU level,&#8221; she added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"> Chat Control, which has been pushed by Denmark and embraced by several other EU countries, is meant to protect children by helping law enforcement better detect abusive material. Hubig said she is committed to battling child pornography but added that \u201ceven the worst crimes do not justify surrendering basic civil rights.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"> Hubig\u2019s remarks follow <a href=\"https:\/\/therecord.media\/signal-calls-on-germany-to-vote-no-chat-control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">days of speculation<\/a> about how Germany will vote on October 14 when the bloc takes up the measure.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"> The president of the Signal Foundation on Friday said the end-to-end encrypted messaging app will not stay in the EU market if Chat Control becomes law. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"> \u201cUnder the guise of protecting children, the latest Chat Control proposals would require mass scanning of every message, photo, and video on a person\u2019s device, assessing these via a government-mandated database or AI model to determine whether they are permissible content or not,\u201d the foundation\u2019s president, Meredith Whittaker, said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"> \u201cWhat they propose is in effect a mass surveillance free-for-all, opening up everyone\u2019s intimate and confidential communications, whether government officials, military, investigative journalists, or activists,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n<p>Get more insights with the <\/p>\n<p>Recorded Future<\/p>\n<p>Intelligence Cloud.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recordedfuture.com\/platform?mtm_campaign=ad-unit-record\">Learn more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German officials on Wednesday said they will vote against a European Union proposal to allow the scanning of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-483155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115339018637843099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}