Procedural trick before summer break: EU Parliament reactivates Chat Control 1.0
Tug-of-war in the background
No acute protection gap
“Black day for civil rights”
On the last day of session before the parliamentary summer break, the EU Parliament narrowly voted to extend the long-controversial legal basis for Chat Control 1.0 for another approximately two years. Amendments that would have completely rejected an initiative by the Council of Ministers did not find the required absolute majority at the very beginning of the vote. Later, only two correction proposals managed to overcome this hurdle, stipulating that the scanning of private chat messages should not occur with end-to-end encryption.
