EU lawmakers have again allowed tech firms to scan chats for abuse material, but exempted end-to-end encrypted messages.
The European Parliament has passed legislation allowing tech firms to scan messages for child sexual abuse material until 2028, a controversial law dubbed “chat control” by critics.
EU lawmakers on Thursday largely voted against extending the regulation, dubbed “Chat Control 1.0,” but stopping it required 361 lawmakers to reject it. Only 314 voted to stop the law, and 276 supported it.
The vote advances reviving the “chat control” rules that expired in April, and has been a controversial topic among privacy and cryptography advocates, as the originally designed law breaks the principle behind encrypting messages.
Parliament, however, passed an exemption to exclude “communications to which end-to-end encryption is, has been or will be applied," handing a small win to cypherpunks.
Pirate Party MEP Markéta Gregorová, whose party put forward the amendment to exempt end-to-end encrypted messages, said its success was “a bittersweet victory.”
“Protecting encryption was one of our priorities, and I am therefore glad that we managed to secure an absolute majority for an amendment that at least preserves encryption. At the same time, however, voluntary mass scanning unfortunately passed,” she said.
The law’s supporters argue it is vital to protect children and combat the spread of abusive material.
The parliament's laws with amendments will be sent back to the Council of the EU, a body of ministers from the bloc’s member nations who will approve or reject the legislation.
The vote on Thursday comes after the European Parliament voted through a rarely used urgent procedure on Tuesday that brought lawmakers back to vote on whether to extend a legal framework for the laws that expired in April.
Since the framework expired, messaging platforms such as WhatsApp have been allowed to take their own voluntary measures to seek out those sharing abusive material.
In March, Parliament had rejected a temporary extension of the scheme while a new permanent version of the law, dubbed “Chat Control 2.0,” was under discussion, before the European People's Party, the largest group in Parliament, revived the extension in the urgent procedure vote on Tuesday.
The party had largely voted against extending the laws in March because of amendments that restricted the sc
小靓分析：
🦊 小靓解读
欧盟通过“聊天控制”法案，允许扫描私人聊天内容但豁免端到端加密消息，这算是个折中方案。对加密行业而言，隐私币和去中心化通信协议可能会受到更多关注，但短期冲击有限。
📊 市场影响
隐私币如Monero（XMR）或Zcash（ZEC）可能因监管趋严而出现短期波动，但端到端加密被豁免降低了全面打压风险。整体市场情绪偏中性，比特币和以太坊受影响较小。
💡 操作建议
建议暂时观望隐私币，避免追高；可关注去中心化存储和通信项目的中长期机会。控制仓位，别在消息面不确定时重仓。
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