Chat control vote postponed: Huge success in defense of digital privacy

The EU Council postponed, at short notice, the planned adoption of its position on the so-called chat control regulation on combating child sexual abuse, which the Belgian Council presidency had scheduled for that day. Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer welcomed the delay and said governments have so far failed to build a qualified majority, though they could try again within days. Breyer called for the latest Council compromise to be revised in four points, including ruling out client-side scanning, dropping mandatory age verification, and ending the indiscriminate screening of private messages in favour of judicial search orders.