Published on
09/07/2026 - 15:47 GMT+2
The European Parliament adopted on Thursday amendments excluding the likes of WhatsApp from a controversial temporary regime that allows electronic communication services to put voluntary measures in place to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
MEPs want to exclude communication services applying end-to-end encryption from the scope of the law, meaning that platforms such as WhatsApp and Messenger will no longer be able to take voluntary measures derogating from EU e-privacy rules to identify users suspected of sharing CSAM.
End-to-end encryption is a technology to secure electronic communications in such a way that only the receiver and the sender can decode the content of the messages.
