- A new citizen -led initiative can now help you
- Experts are concerned about the negative impact that the bill has on the privacy and security of citizens
- The Danish version of the so -called chat check could be adopted already on October 14, 2025
If you are in the EU, you can now intervene against the controversial sexual abuse of children (CSAM), which is currently being discussed in the EU Council thanks to a new citizen-led initiative.
Considered by critics as chat control, the proposal was first revealed in May 2022 to stop the spread of CSAM content online by scanning all communication, especially those encrypted.
A proposal that has attracted strong criticism and pushback among both experts and legislators has never been closer to passing by. The Danish version of the Bill could be adopted already on October 14, 2025.
“Our goal is to strengthen citizens with the knowledge they need to understand the consequences of this legislation and to encourage them to intervene by contacting their elected representatives in the European Parliament and the national governments,” explains the people behind the fighting chat control initiative launched on August 6.
The website provides easy to understand information about the CSAM scan proposal while tracking the positions of EU Member States and EU representatives.
By going to the tag tab, you can contact your country’s MEPs within a few clicks to ask them to scrape the controversial suggestion. The website prepares the message to you based on your concerns about the proposed law.
“We believe that privacy is a fundamental right and that an end-to-end encryption is important to protect our personal communication, financial information and digital identities. Suggestions for chat management would undermine these protections, potentially exposing citizens to new security risks and monitoring without meaningful benefits.”
What is the next for European Chats?
From his first disclosure in 2022, the Chat Control proposal has seen many twists as advocates of privacy, technologists and even politicians raised concerns. Concerns that the Council has failed to find an appointment.
The most disputed point is about encryption, the technology that WhatsApp, Signal, encrypted E -Mail providers such as ProtonMail and even the best VPN apps use to ensure that the content of your communication remains private from you and who you are talking to.
Over the years, the EU Council has tried to find a compromise – without any success.
According to its first version, all Message Software providers would be required to perform arbitrary scanning of private messages to look for CSAM. Backlash was strong as the European Human Rights Court continued to ban all legal efforts to weaken the encryption of safe communication in Europe.
In June 2024, Belgium suggested a new, more compromising text to target only shared photos, videos and URLs with users’ permission. In February 2025, Poland tried to find a better compromise by making encrypted chat scanning voluntary and classified as “prevention.”
Spool until July 2025 reintroduced Denmark Chat Control as a top legislative priority on his first presidency day and made a new compromise text that former MEP for the German Pirate Party and Digital Right’s lawyer, Patrick Breyer, considered the “more radical version” so far.
Of crucial importance is growing momentum among EU Member States that back up the legislation. At the time of writing, according to Fight Chat Control’s latest data, 15 Member States support the law (including France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Ireland), nine are undeclared (such as Estonia, Germany and Belgium) and only three are against the bill in its current form (Austria, Netherlands and Polanden).
On September 12, 2025, the Council is expected to share its final positions where the vote would take place on October 14.
