--- title: EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer:... description: The EU Parliament has allowed Chat Control 1.0 to pass despite a majority of voting MEPs opposing it (314 against, 276 in favor), because the rejection motion... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0-breyer-our-children-lose-out--w4jdivjtj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: “Our children lose out” | daily.dev og:description: The EU Parliament has allowed Chat Control 1.0 to pass despite a majority of voting MEPs opposing it (314 against, 276 in favor), because the rejection motion... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0-breyer-our-children-lose-out--w4jdivjtj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/w4jDiVjtJ.png og:image:alt: EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: “Our children lose out” og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: “Our children lose out” **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 7 min read · 37 upvotes · 34 comments ## Summary The EU Parliament has allowed Chat Control 1.0 to pass despite a majority of voting MEPs opposing it (314 against, 276 in favor), because the rejection motion failed to reach the required absolute majority of 361 votes. This reinstates warrantless mass scanning of private unencrypted messages on platforms like Instagram, Discord, Gmail, and iCloud until 2028. End-to-end encrypted services like WhatsApp remain exempt. Critics including civil rights activist Patrick Breyer and abuse survivors argue the measure is ineffective, generates massive false-positive rates (48% of alerts not criminally relevant, 99% of Meta reports being previously known material), and undermines the privacy that survivors rely on. Negotiations for a permanent 'Chat Control 2.0' regulation resume in September, with the core dispute being targeted vs. suspicionless scanning. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is EU Chat Control 1.0 and what does it allow tech companies to do now? Chat Control 1.0 is an interim EU regulation, reinstated after a European Parliament vote, that permits US tech companies to scan private messages without a warrant or prior suspicion. It applies to direct messages on platforms such as Instagram, Discord, Snapchat, Skype, and Xbox, plus emails via Gmail and iCloud, and remains in effect until 2028 or until a permanent law is agreed. _Developers tracking EU platform compliance requirements can follow chat control developments on daily.dev._ ### Why did the vote against Chat Control 1.0 fail even though most MEPs opposed it? The motion to reject Chat Control 1.0 failed because it needed an absolute majority of 361 votes in the European Parliament, but only received 314 votes against versus 276 in favor with 17 abstentions. Despite more MEPs voting against it than for it, the procedural threshold meant the regulation passed anyway, permitting mass scanning to continue until 2028. _Following EU digital policy fights like this one helps developers anticipate compliance shifts via daily.dev._ ### Are end-to-end encrypted messaging apps like WhatsApp scanned under Chat Control? No, end-to-end encrypted chats such as those on WhatsApp have always been exempt from Chat Control scanning requirements. A symbolic exemption for encrypted communications was also adopted in the latest vote, though in practice service providers do not scan encrypted messages anyway since they lack access to the content. _Engineers building encrypted messaging features can track regulatory carve-outs like this through daily.dev._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@dcorto** · 24 upvotes > what a joke, shame on the EU **@alvelinov** · 15 upvotes > Third vote for this thing after 2 initial 'no'-s and they conveniently waited for vacation season to try again. What a joy it is to live in a (supposedly anti-)communist union :) **@capjavert** · 10 upvotes >  **@coppnic** · 10 upvotes > The Brussels Elite abusing the EU as always. This is a shame for our free democratic European Union. **@notalizard\_really** · 7 upvotes > It should require an absolute majority to pass, not to be rejected. > > But of course if they want it to pass, it'll pass. > > Democracy is a sham and has been so for ages. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [End of “Chat Control”: EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveillance in Voting Thriller – Paving the Way for Genuine Child Protection\!](https://daily.dev/posts/end-of-chat-control-eu-parliament-stops-mass-surveillance-in-voting-thriller-paving-the-way-for-cfjp9asdh) · Hacker News · 9 upvotes · 0 comments - [EU 'Chat Control' snoopfest returns after vote to kill it falls short](https://daily.dev/posts/eu-chat-control-snoopfest-returns-after-vote-to-kill-it-falls-short-qfwwf43u5) · The Register · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [EU Parliament revives child-abuse scanning bill](https://daily.dev/posts/eu-parliament-revives-child-abuse-scanning-bill-u7hcjjbst) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: 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