Notices by Fight Chat Control (chatcontrol@mastodon.social)

The European Commission is pushing hard to extend Chat Control 1.0 - allowing mass scanning of private messages without court orders for another two years. Contact your MEPs TODAY via https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ to defend your privacy and digital rights!

🚨 Denmark is attempting to force #ChatControl 2.0 through the back door TODAY!

Take action now!

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

Denmark has tabled next week's vote on Chat Control.

Yet, per Peter Hummelgaard:

"The Danish Presidency will, however, continue to work with the member states to find a solution, and therefore negotiations on the technical details of the proposal continue. It is urgent to find common ground."

Since Denmark can attempt another vote in December, it is important to stay vigilant. Both Italy and Sweden remain undecided while France remains supportive despite Chat Control being in direct violation of its Résilience bill explicitly forbidding both forced backdoors and client-side scanning.

Stay engaged!

Source: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/seneste/tyskland-fejer-kontroversielt-chatkontrol-forslag-af-bordet

🇩🇪 Germany is AGAINST Chat Control:

Jens Spahn: "We as the CDU/CSU parliamentary group are against indiscriminate monitoring of chats. That would be like preemptively opening all letters to check whether there's something illegal in them. That's not acceptable, that won't happen under our watch."

If you are 🇩🇪 German, you can now call many of your Bundestag members directly via https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ by clicking the "Call" button!

🇮🇹 Italy remains UNDECIDED, but is leaning towards SUPPORTING Chat Control despite clear conflicts with constitutional guarantees on privacy and the secrecy of correspondence.

If you are Italian, consider contacting your national parliament members via https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ !

RE: https://mastodon.social/@chatcontrol/115241974344102261

Almost there!

48 149 / 50 000 signatures!

IMPORTANT UPDATE

🇧🇪 Belgium now SUPPORTS the compromise proposal IN PRINCIPLE, despite contradicting promises to citizens: reverts to UNDECIDED.

🇮🇹 Italy is UNDECIDED, expressing doubts on including new CSAM in scope.

🇱🇻 Latvia is UNDECIDED but assesses the text positively, pending national support.

Opposition to Chat Control within Denmark is growing. Fast. If you are a Danish citizen, please consider signing the Chat Control petition: https://www.borgerforslag.dk/se-og-stoet-forslag/?Id=FT-21156

At 50 000 signatures, it is automatically submitted to the parliament and undergoes the standard legislative process, including potential debates, review, and vote.

🇩🇰 Stine BOSSE
🇩🇰 Asger CHRISTENSEN
🇩🇪 Tiemo WÖLKEN
🇩🇪 René REPASI
🇨🇿 Filip TUREK
🇪🇸 Ana MIRANDA PAZ
🇭🇺 Zsuzsanna BORVENDÉG

and all 🇫🇷 Rassemblement national MEPs OPPOSE Chat Control.

Despite the bad news with Germany, there is still some good news:

MEPs

🇨🇾 Fidias PANAYIOTOU
🇪🇸 Alvise PÉREZ
🇷🇴 Cristian TERHEŞ
🇸🇪 Abir AL-SAHLANI
🇸🇪 Emma WIESNER
🇵🇹 Bruno GONÇALVES
🇸🇰 Ľubica KARVAŠOVÁ
🇸🇰 Martin HOJSÍK
🇸🇰 Ľudovít ÓDOR
🇸🇰 Michal WIEZIK
🇸🇰 Lucia YAR
🇳🇱 Dirk GOTINK
🇩🇪 Jan-Peter WARNKE
🇧🇪 Sara MATTHIEU
🇸🇮 Irena JOVEVA
🇸🇮 Vladimir PREBILIČ
🇮🇹 Cristina GUARDA
🇮🇹 Benedetta SCUDERI
🇪🇪 Jana TOOM
🇩🇰 Morten LØKKEGAARD
🇸🇮 Matej TONIN
🇮🇪 Michael MCNAMARA

all OPPOSE Chat Control!

Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED.

Despite expressing concerns about breaking end-to-end encryption, Germany refrained from taking a definitive stance on the Chat Control proposal during the September 12th LEWP meeting. A willingness to negotiate and compromise remains.

This is an unfortunate as Germany is crucial to defeating Chat Control.

Please make your voices heard! https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

Source: https://netzpolitik.org/2025/chatkontrolle-noch-haelt-sich-widerstand/

Danish Minister of Justice and chief architect of the current Chat Control proposal, Peter Hummelgaard:

"We must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone's civil liberty to communicate on encrypted messaging services."

Share your thoughts via https://fightchatcontrol.eu/, or to jm@jm.dk directly.

Source: https://www.ft.dk/samling/20231/almdel/REU/spm/1426/index.htm

Germany is AGAINST Chat Control as currently proposed!

This is a critical step, securing the blocking minority required to stop this illegal mass surveillance for now! However, the LEWP meeting is tomorrow: do not stop fighting!

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

Source: https://www.bundestag.de/presse/hib/kurzmeldungen-1108356

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ is now available in an additional ten European languages: Български, Català, Deutsch, Nederlands, Ελληνικά, Español, Magyar, Português, Svenska, and Suomeksi. A big thank you to all who contributed to these efforts!

Should you spot any issues, please reach out!

Finland announces OPPOSITION to Chat Control.

"Finland cannot support the most recent compromise proposal because it contains a detection order that has been found problematic from a constitutional standpoint."

This leaves six undecided countries:

* Estonia
* Germany
* Greece
* Luxembourg
* Romania
* Slovenia

Contact your MEPs and Permanent Representation today: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

Read the Finnish statement at: https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/ministerial-committee-on-european-union-affairs-discusses-proposal-for-eu-regulation-on-combating-sexual-violence-against-children

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

🇨🇿 Czech Republic is now OPPOSED to Chat Control, as announced by Prime Minister Petr Fiala:

"On behalf of myself and the entire TOTAL coalition, I want to say clearly: we will not allow the monitoring of citizens' private correspondence. We do not agree that any emails or messages on platforms such as WhatsApp or Messenger can be monitored. Protecting our children is important, but we have to do it differently."

This now leaves eight undecided member states.