Fight Chat Control

Important update Thanks to the sheer volume of citizens raising their voices in opposition, the Danish Presidency has been forced to update its Chat Control compromise text to include the following recital:
 "(17a) Nothing in this Regulation should be understood as imposing any detection obligations on providers." 
 The final proposal 15318/25 containing recital 17a is now heading for Coreper (Committee of Permanent Representations). Once approved, the position formally adopted by Council will thus exclude mandatory scanning. Council is expected to officially adopt its position the 18th or 19th. We should then expect trilogue to commence. Next steps While this presents a “quick fix” in response to public pressure that legally is not a good solution, it is a much better position than before and one that can be worked with. The multiple flaws and inconsistencies that remain (e.g. mandatory age verification effectively outlawing anonymous communication and planned “voluntary” mass scanning) can be amended during trilogue with the European Parliament. While Danish Minister of Justice and Chief Architect of Chat Control Peter Hummelgaard, and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, are likely to attempt an expedited process, a deal is unlikely to be reached in December. They will likely try to complete the deal in Q1 of 2026. As negotiations commence, contact your MEPs and let them know how you would like them to vote and protect your codified rights to privacy.

What happened today? Behind closed doors, the Law Enforcement Working Party group approved the revised Danish Chat Control compromise with broad support. While mandatory scanning had officially been dropped, Article 4 of the new text reframes and reintroduces it by obliging providers of e-mail, chat, and messenger services to take “all appropriate risk mitigation measures”. This effectively forces providers to scan all messages, including private, end-to-end encrypted content. The same article outlaws anonymous communication by requiring every citizen to verify their age before accessing a service, kneecapping whistleblowers, journalists, political activists, and people seeking help who depend on anonymity. Article 6 further imposes a digital house arrest and would ban minors from installing software which comes with a significant risk of grooming, such as WhatsApp, Instagram, and online games like Roblox. What happens next? The legislation now moves to the Coreper (Committee of Permanent Representations) for approval. Without major political objections, the Council will formally adopt its position. At this stage, both the Council and Commission unite in imposing mass surveillance on all 450 million citizens of the European Union and we enter a rushed trilogue. Unfortunately, while the mandate of the European Parliament does not suffer from the same flaws, the Parliament is traditionally known for giving in. What now? We raise our voices. Louder.

See more information via www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-cont...

🚨 Denmark is attempting to force #ChatControl 2.0 through the back door TODAY!

Take action now!

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“The detection order will not be part of the EU presidency’s new compromise proposal. It will remain voluntary for tech giants to search for child sexual abuse material.”

Danish Minister of Justice, Peter Hummelgaard, confirms today that Denmark is backing down and dropping mandatory scanning.

Source: www.dr.dk/nyheder/sene...

Since Denmark can attempt another vote in December, it is important to stay vigilant. Both Italy and Sweden remain undecided while France remains supportive despite Chat Control being in direct violation of its Résilience bill explicitly forbidding both forced backdoors and client-side scanning.

Denmark has tabled next week's vote on Chat Control.

Yet, per Peter Hummelgaard:

"The Danish Presidency will, however, continue to work with the member states to find a solution, and therefore negotiations on the technical details of the proposal continue. It is urgent to find common ground."

Zitat Anlasslose Chatkontrolle muss in einem Rechtsstaat tabu sein. Private Kommunikation darf nie unter Generalverdacht stehen.“

Germany's Minister of Justice today: "Suspicionless #ChatControl must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law." Private communication cannot be placed under general suspicion. "Germany will not agree to such proposals at the EU level."

Source: www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Z...

This is an important milestone only made possible by all of you actively raising your voices to your MEPs and MPs. THANK YOU! We need to remain vigilant: the Justice and Home Affairs Council is still meeting the 13-14th October.

We need to actively monitor the coming days!

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Germany voices opposition to Chat Control, tilting the balance.

🇩🇪 Germany is AGAINST Chat Control:

Jens Spahn: "We as the CDU/CSU parliamentary group are against indiscriminate monitoring of chats. That would be like preemptively opening all letters to check whether there's something illegal in them. That's not acceptable, that won't happen under our watch."

Take action!

fightchatcontrol.eu to contact your ministers, permanent representation, MEPs, and, if you are German or Italian, your national MPs!

Calling Bundestag members now supported via https://fightchatcontrol.eu/.

If you are 🇩🇪 German, you can now call many of your Bundestag members directly via fightchatcontrol.eu by clicking the "Call" button!

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ now includes national members of the Italian parliament.

🇮🇹 Italy remains UNDECIDED, but is leaning towards SUPPORTING Chat Control despite clear conflicts with constitutional guarantees on privacy and the secrecy of correspondence.

If you are Italian, consider contacting your national parliament members via fightchatcontrol.eu !

Source: www.dr.dk/lyd/special-...

Danish Minister of Justice, Peter Hummelgaard.

Peter Hummelgaard, Danish Minister of Justice, remains defiant:

"I indisputably believe that surveillance creates an increased sense of security ... and given that the prerequisite for freedom is security, yes, I believe that more surveillance equates to more freedom"

Disagree? fightchatcontrol.eu

See more information about Chat Control in German via chat-kontrolle.eu and stay up-to-date via netzpolitik.org !

Please note that fightchatcontrol.de is a permanent redirection to fightchatcontrol.eu in German with the Bundestag pre-selected for easier sharing. You can still access the Bundestag members via the primary .eu website.

Screenshot of the Fight Chat Control website (https://fightchatcontrol.eu/) in German showing the Bundestag members. It is now possible to contact Bundestag members directly to express your concerns about Chat Control.

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

Denmark has scheduled a vote on Chat Control the 14th of October. Despite not wanting to break end-to-end encryption, 🇩🇪 Germany remains both UNDECIDED and critical to defeating the proposal.

If you are German, contact your Bundestag members today via fightchatcontrol.de !

MEPs

🇧🇪 Benoît Cassart
🇳🇱 Tom BERENDSEN
🇬🇷 Maria ZACHARIA
🇬🇷 Emmanouil FRAGKOS
🇬🇷 Lefteris NIKOLAOU-ALAVANOS
🇬🇷 Kostas PAPADAKIS

all OPPOSE Chat Control!

Slovenija vendarle sprejela odločitev o uredbi Chat Control Notranje ministrstvo je danes sporočilo, da predloga evropske uredbe za boj proti spolnim zlorabam otrok (Chat control) v trenutni obliki ne podpira.

🇸🇮 Slovenia OPPOSES Chat Control!

"Ministry of the Interior today announced today that it is committed to the right balance between the protection of children and the interference with fundamental rights, and cannot support the proposal [...] in its current form."

Source: n1info.si/novice/slove...

Stop Chat Control: Why scanning all our private messages is a very bad idea 🔴 Webinar - Tue 30 Sep 18.30h CEST

In a world where autocrats attack #FreeSpeech, Europe must protect our right to privacy.

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IMPORTANT UPDATE

🇧🇪 Belgium now SUPPORTS the compromise proposal IN PRINCIPLE, despite contradicting promises to citizens: reverts to UNDECIDED.

🇮🇹 Italy is UNDECIDED, expressing doubts on including new CSAM in scope.

🇱🇻 Latvia is UNDECIDED but assesses the text positively, pending national support.

🇩🇰 Stine BOSSE
🇩🇰 Asger CHRISTENSEN
🇩🇪 Tiemo WÖLKEN
🇩🇪 René REPASI
🇨🇿 Filip TUREK
🇪🇸 Ana MIRANDA PAZ
🇭🇺 Zsuzsanna BORVENDÉG

and all 🇫🇷 Rassemblement national MEPs OPPOSE Chat Control.

Nej til EU’s “Masseovervågning” beskyt vores privatliv, digitale sikkerhed og ytringsfrihed. Vi beder Danmark om at stemme nej til EU’s “Chatkontrol” en lov, der pålægger masseovervågning af alle borgere ved at scanne private beskeder, e-mails

Opposition to Chat Control within Denmark is growing. Fast. If you are a Danish citizen, please consider signing the Chat Control petition: www.borgerforslag.dk/se-og-stoet-...

At 50 000 signatures, it is automatically submitted to the parliament.

Could you please forward the entire response via contact@fightchatcontrol.eu directly? Thank you!

This is an unfortunate development as Germany is crucial to defeating Chat Control.

Please make your voices heard! fightchatcontrol.eu

Source: netzpolitik.org/2025/chatkon...

🇳🇱 Dirk GOTINK
🇩🇪 Jan-Peter WARNKE
🇧🇪 Sara MATTHIEU
🇸🇮 Irena JOVEVA
🇸🇮 Vladimir PREBILIČ
🇮🇹 Cristina GUARDA
🇮🇹 Benedetta SCUDERI
🇪🇪 Jana TOOM
🇩🇰 Morten LØKKEGAARD
🇸🇮 Matej TONIN
🇮🇪 Michael MCNAMARA

all OPPOSE Chat Control!

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Despite the bad news with Germany, there is still some good news:

MEPs

🇨🇾 Fidias PANAYIOTOU
🇪🇸 Alvise PÉREZ
🇷🇴 Cristian TERHEŞ
🇸🇪 Abir AL-SAHLANI
🇸🇪 Emma WIESNER
🇵🇹 Bruno GONÇALVES
🇸🇰 Ľubica KARVAŠOVÁ
🇸🇰 Martin HOJSÍK
🇸🇰 Ľudovít ÓDOR
🇸🇰 Michal WIEZIK
🇸🇰 Lucia YAR

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Overview of current support and opposition for the Chat Control legislation by Patrick Breyer (https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/). Countries opposing include the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Finland, and Estonia. Undecided countries are Germany, Slovenia, Romania, and Greece. All remaining member states supports Chat Control.

Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED.

Despite expressing concerns about breaking end-to-end encryption, Germany refrained from taking a definitive stance on the Chat Control proposal during the September 12th LEWP meeting. A willingness to negotiate and compromise remains.