- The EU chairman of Poland has also found no majority about the disputed Child Sexual ABuse (CSAM) Scanning Bill
- The EU committee first unveiled the so-called chat operating proposal in May 2022
- In February Poland proposed a new version to voluntarily make scanned chats
Poland has also failed in his attempt to find an agreement on the scanning of the controversial sexual abuse of children (CSAM).
As reported by Digital Rights Group NetzpolitikThe Polish presidency is the newest EU council that indicates after he could not secure the necessary majority among EU members. The bill tries to demand all message services in Europe that they scan chats from users, even if they are coded.
That said, what is considered by critics Chat control Maybe it might not be off the table yet. Denmark was established on July 1, 2025 to take the lead on the EU presidency until December. A strong supporter of chat control, experts from NetXpolitik expect Denmark to push the proposal ahead.
“No agreement could be reached” – again
“No agreement could be reached during the meeting,” reads the summary (as published by NetXPolitik) of the last meeting of Polish presidency on 23 May 2025.
The EU committee first unveiled the proposal in May 2022 as a solution for the distribution of CSAM content. Since then, the proposal has seen many turns, but many experts and politicians have warned about the privacy and safety risks to undermine coded communication.
According to the first version, all providers of messaging software, regardless of whether they use coding, would be needed to randomly scan private messages on the lookout for CSAM-Zogenmamant ‘Client-Side Scanning. ‘
Backlash under industry and even among political EU banks – the European Court of Human Rights Forbidden all legal efforts to weaken the coding Of safe communication in Europe in the beginning of 2024 in fact – legislators brought the wording to adjust. Last June, Belgium then proposed a new text To target only shared photos, videos and URLs on the permission of users.
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However, this version did not meet the industry or the EU members’ voting because of its compulsive nature. According to the Belgian text, users must give permission for the scanned material that is scanned before they are coded to continue to use the functionality.
Fast-forward until February 2025, Poland tried to find a better compromise through the Scanning of coded chats voluntarily Instead of mandatory and classified as ‘prevention’.
While experts found this version a ‘great progress’, they still regretted the risk of massive surveillance.
During the entire presidency, EU members could not agree on a satisfactory wording, despite various attempts to change the compromise text.
As reported by Netzpolitik, many representatives of the EU members have expressed their concern. These even include countries that previously participated in the list of inravures, such as Italy, Romania and France. The latter even stated: “It is not logical to continue working with this text at all.”
As mentioned earlier, it is expected that Denmark will continue to try to find an agreement about the CSAM scan proposal after starting his presidency in July.
This is because the EU committee has also been established to start its investigation into legal coding back door under a new controversial plan, Protecteu. Although he is in his infancy, the strategy already has Did strong criticism In the industry.
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