EU Council Agrees on Controversial Chat Scanning Regulation for Child Abuse Detection
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Summary
The EU Council has reached an agreement on the controversial Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (CSAR), known as 'Chat Control' by critics, which requires messaging service providers in the EU to scan users' private chats for child sexual abuse material, including those using end-to-end encryption. The agreement follows more than three years of failed attempts and has sparked significant controversy among privacy experts, technologists, and encrypted service providers who argue it undermines encryption and privacy protections.
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Nicknamed Chat Control by its critics, the agreement has kept cryptographers, technologists, encrypted service providers, and privacy experts alike in turmoil since its inception.
But its most controversial feature is an obligation for all messaging service providers operating in the EU – including those using end-to-end-encryption – to scan their users' private chats on the lookout
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