EU proposes 'Chat Control' to monitor contents of all private messages, even on encrypted apps

This would be a big fish in the so-called Free World falling to full-on digital surveillance, which means the U.S. would eventually move in the same direction

Under the guise of protecting children from harmful content, a highly invasive, some would say Orwellian government scheme called “Chat Control” is back on the hot burner in the European Union, with 19 out of 27 EU member states reportedly backing the measure.

According to a report by Zero Hedge, the plan would mandate that private messaging apps, including WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram, must scan every message, photo and video sent by users starting in October, even if end-to-end encryption is in place, the popular French tech blogger Korben wrote on Monday.

The measure was reintroduced last month by Denmark on the first day of its EU Council presidency. France, once opposed, is now in favor, Korben said, citing Patrick Breyer, a former member of the European Parliament for Germany and the European Pirate Party.

Belgium, Hungary, Sweden, Italy and Spain are also in favor, while Germany and the Czech Republic remain undecided.

If Germany decides to cast its vote with the majority, the council could push the plan through by mid-October.

Only Austria, the Netherlands and Poland have come out against the Orwellian government-surveillance proposal.

A qualified majority in the EU Council is achieved when two conditions are met. First, at least 55 percent of member states, meaning 15 out of 27, must vote in favor. Second, those countries must represent at least 65% of the EU’s total population.

Privacy critics warn of the following issues with this proposal:

• It breaks true end‑to‑end encryption

• It enables mass surveillance of ALL messages

• AI detection often misfires on innocent content

• It threatens digital privacy, dissent, and minors’ rights

The ProtectEU law, tabled this summer, pushes even further, offering the government total across-the-board decryption access by 2030.

According to the tech website CaptainCompliance.com, the EU’s Regulation on Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) detection, also known as “Chat Control,” aims to curb online child abuse through mandatory scanning of private communications. Introduced in May 2022 as “Chat Control 2.0,” it expands on voluntary scanning by services like Gmail and Facebook Messenger. It requires providers to scan chats, messages, emails, and cloud storage, breaking end-to-end encryption on platforms like WhatsApp and Signal. The goal is to boost CSAM detection reports from 1.5 million in 2021 to tens of millions, aiding prosecutions. It also includes network blocking, mandatory age verification ending online anonymity, app store censorship, and barring minors from certain platforms.

These things always start out in China and Asia, then spread to Europe.

But we shouldn’t dismiss it as just a European thing. Most of the time, measures that sound too radical to ever materialize in the so-called free world start out in Europe, then come to Canada and lastly to the United States. The globalists start their most radical policies in the most anti-freedom sectors of the Western world, moving gradually to the most free country, the U.S., knowing that the biggest fish to fry is the U.S., which will only capitulate on some issues after all of its allies do. This is how digital IDs are being worked into the global system. First in Asia, then Europe and Canada, then the U.S. I imagine it will be the same with digital programmable, freedom-ending digital currencies.

Orwell was spot on in his vision of the future. He was only wrong about the date.