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Chat Control approved: Certain EU countries will see your private messages. Is yours on the list?
(euroweeklynews.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2025
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It's kind of unclear what "voluntary" means. Is it voluntary for countries to enforce? Is it voluntary for companies to scan chats?
I thought it was the latter.
In that case, is there any change? Companies could already do that if they wanted. Many of them already did.
It seems the reason companies are currently allowed to do this in the EU is because there was in 2020 a temporary derogation from certain provisions of the e-Privacy Directive.
But it was temporary, so it will expire in April 2026. With this new law the intention is to make that "voluntary detection" a permanent thing they allow service providers to do, as a norm. The providers still have the choice to not do it, so I don't think this affects services like signal, as far as I understand.