MEPs vote again on temporary rules allowing chat scanning for child abuse content
The European Parliament will vote on Thursday on a renewed bid to reinstate interim rules allowing tech companies to scan private messages for child sexual abuse material (CSAM), after the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) revived the proposal.
The previous law, which was always meant to be temporary, expired in April after EU institutions failed to extend it, leaving tech companies without a legal basis to scan for CSAM.
In March, Parliament backed including new privacy safeguards in the temporary scanning regime. But after negotiations with the Council failed, MEPs voted to reject the extension altogether, effectively derailing the push to extend the law before it lapsed.
But the EPP group hasn’t given up on getting the temporary rules reinstated.
