Now The EU Council Should Finally Understand: No One Wants “Chat Control”

The EU Council's Belgian Presidency ended without a deal on the controversial message-scanning proposal, often called "chat control," which has been debated in the EU for more than two years. News reports indicate the sponsors withdrew it because they could not get a majority of member states to support it. EFF, which has opposed the legislation from the start, published a statement with EU civil society groups calling for the proposal to be withdrawn. The proposal would create "detection orders" to compare messages, files, and photos from hundreds of millions of users against government databases of child abuse images.