📰 🚨 🇪🇺EU Countries Chat Control Vote

As of September 12, 2025, the European Union Council meeting concluded with fifteen member states publicly supporting the Danish compromise proposal, which includes mandatory client-side scanning of encrypted messages to detect child sexual abuse material Four countries—Estonia, Greece, Romania, and Slovenia—remain undecided, making their final positions pivotal for the outcome

**Countries in Favor of Chat Control:**

* Bulgaria

* Croatia

* Cyprus

* Denmark

* France

* Hungary

* Ireland

* Italy

* Latvia

* Lithuania

* Malta

* Portugal

* Slovakia

* Spain

* Sweden

**Countries Opposing Chat Control:**

* Austria

* Belgium

* Czech Republic

* Finland

* Germany

* Luxembourg

* Netherlands

* Poland

The final vote by the European Council is scheduled for October 14, 2025, with the outcome dependent on the positions of the four undecided states.

Unreal that despite all cryptografy experts reports explaining the inefficacy of the proposed surveillance and the importance of E2E encryption for privacy as a human right, we still have so many countries in the EU pedaling this using child abuse as a excuse while doing very little to tackle the root problem itself with UN based recommendations.