EU Set to Quietly Pass “Chat Control” Legislation That Will Allow Every Message—Encrypted or Not—To Be Scanned
The Brussels globalist machine never sleeps. When Europeans rejected the original “Chat Control” last month, the ‘liberal’ establishment—on both the right and the left—simply repackaged it as “Chat Control 2.0” and started quietly making plans to slip it through the back door.
Today, EU officials are expected to meet and quietly rubber-stamp a negotiating mandate that pretends to drop mandatory scanning while letting Big Tech “voluntarily” spy on your WhatsApp and Signal messages.
According to MEP Martin Sonneborn (Die Partei) on X, the draft is set to appear on the agenda of EU ambassadors on Wednesday and is expected to be approved without discussion.
The Chat Control proposal was first introduced last summer under the banner of protecting children from online abuse.
Its core mechanism required all messaging services—such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, and Messenger—to implement automated scanning of every private message, photo, and video for suspected illegal material.
Resistance to the proposed legislation emerged immediately and forcefully. Thousands of legal experts, technologists, and Members of the European Parliament condemned the plan, arguing that it would shatter privacy rights, overturn the presumption of innocence, and breach the fundamental principle of proportionality protected by the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
According to former MEP Patrick Breyer, this latest push to revive the law is the same surveillance monster, just wearing a friendlier mask and packed with poison pills that make it even worse than the original.
Belgian researcher Tijl De Bie called it “Chat Control on steroids via the back door” and warned that passing it would be the ultimate betrayal of every voter who still believes in privacy.
Tech expert Raf Vantongerloo summed up the EU playbook: keep bringing the same law back, slightly tweaked, until the resistance gets tired and the lobbyists win.
“They keep introducing it every year or so, slightly altered to appease the MEPs that voted against. Meanwhile, the lobbying continues … so eventually they get their laws approved. Those practices should be illegal.”
France and Denmark obediently saluted, while Germany and Poland—at least for now—are pushing back against this latest assault on personal freedom.
Hidden review clauses guarantee that today’s “compromise” becomes tomorrow’s mandatory mass surveillance grid.
The grim reality is that the law isn’t designed to protect children; it’s designed to preserve EU globalists’ control over their increasingly popular political adversaries.
The same anti-European, open-borders elite who destroyed the continent by flooding Europe with unvetted, military-aged migrant men from alien cultures now want the power to read every private message you send to your family, friends, and colleagues.
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