- The opposition against the controversial draft Law on Child Sexual Abuse (CSAM) is growing before a crucial meeting on September 12
- The Danish version of the so -called chat control bill could be adopted in early October 2025 if an agreement is located.
- Experts are concerned about the negative impact that the bill will have on the privacy and security of citizens’ communications
The opposition against the controversial draft Law on Child Sexual Abuse (CSAM) is growing Among the members of the EU state, just a few days from a crucial meeting.
On September 12, the EU Council is expected to share its final positions in the Danish version of the so -called chat control. The proposal, which has attracted strong criticism so far, aims to introduce new obligations for all messaging services that operate in Europe to scan user chats, even if they are encrypted.
According to reports, both the Czech Republic and the Belgium have now gone from being undecided to oppose the proposed law, according to the latest data, and the latter considers that the bill is “a monster that invades its privacy and cannot be domesticated.” They are added to Austria, the Netherlands and Poland by criticizing the mandatory detection and encryption provisions of the proposal.
However, the list of followers is still much longer, counting 15 member states at the time of writing. These include crucial countries such as France, together with Italy, Spain, Sweden, Lithuania, Chipre, Latvia and Ireland.
Crucially, the French euros said that “basically supporting” the draft, he told Techradar a source with knowledge of the matter. While Germany, another decisive vote to block or support the bill, may be considering refraining from taking a position. This is something that the Danish mandate will weaken, “even if the presidency obtains the votes required to approve,” explains the PakGazette source.
What is at stake for the encrypted communications of Europe?
First presented in 2022, Chat’s control proposal has never been so close to becoming law, with a vote established on October 14, 2025, and most EU member states are currently their supporters.
At a more practical level, this means that the EU could be scanning its chats by October 2025, regardless of whether they are encrypted.
The main dispute point, in fact, are the provisions on encryption, which is the technology responsible for maintaining our private and safe communications. WhatsApp, Signal, Protonmail and even the best VPN applications use encryption to review the content of users’ messages in an illegible way and avoid unauthorized access.
If the Danish chat control text passes, all the multimedia files and URL that sent through WhatsApp and similar services would have to be mandatory in the CSAM material guard. Crucially, government and military accounts will be exempt from scan.
While the proposal mentions that cybersecurity and encryption should be “comprehensive”, a large number of experts, including technological developers, cryptographers and defenders of digital rights, have been warning that, as planned, the mandatory scan cannot be carried out without weakening the encryption protections. This will also make everyone de facto more vulnerable to cyber attacks.
At the time of writing, only seven countries remain undecided, namely, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, Romania and Slovenia.
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