EU Chat Control

EU Chat Control refers to temporary rules permitting some online services to scan communications for child sexual abuse material, alongside proposals for a more permanent framework that could require detection of abuse material or grooming.

The debate turns on how these measures can protect children while respecting privacy, confidentiality, data protection, and fundamental rights. A central question is how scanning obligations would interact with end-to-end encryption, and what limits—such as narrow scope, judicial oversight, transparency, and routes to challenge errors—are needed to reduce harm.