Brussels faces privacy crossroads over encryption backdoors www.theregister.com/2025/09/1…

Representatives from member states will meet on Friday to consider legislation critics call Chat Control, aka “laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse,” which seeks to require ISPs or messaging app providers to scan user content or backdoor encryption so that intelligence agencies can do it themselves. It’s the latest attempt in a three-year campaign by some in the community to allow government agencies unprecedented access to private communications.

The revised legislative proposals call for systems to be set up to find all current “and new” forms of CSAM, but decline to give any guidance as to how this seemingly impossible task would be achieved. Government and military communications would be exempt from the plan.

If passed, the legislation would require encrypted app makers like WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, Telegram, and Tuta to find ways to enforce such scanning – something they have neither the ability nor the desire to do.