Child sexual abuse online: voluntary detection measures will not be extended | News – CHAT CONTROL 1.0 ENDS THIS 3RD APRIL
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20260325IPR39207/child-sexual-abuse-online-voluntary-detection-measures-will-not-be-extended
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We won, once again
Go check the EPP (party who kept forcing the chat control) Twitter page, they’re SEETHING
Reminder for every person who didn’t read the proposal:
THEY DIDNT WANT CHAT CONTROL TO BE FORCED ON POLITICIANS AND AUTHORITIES
We the normal people kept getting scanned, and they wouldn’t, get it?
If the yes won the politicians would have been MORE PROTECTED than us and would have been able to freely do whatever they wanted.
They voted for multiple amendments, the extension of chat control has been rejected BY ONE VOTE and in the end it seems the parliament has ONCE AGAIN decided to stop chat control 1.0.
The proposal to ONLY MONITOR the single suspects has been rejected though (what they approved last voting session)
chat control 2.0 talks will continue
so…
Let’s hope it takes longer than a week before we need to do this vote again
Here`s how I see this:
1. EPP Forced a vote so they can remove the amendments for targeted scanning.
2. They apparently failed to do so and voted against the extension for Chat Control without mass scanning to kill a bill that`s not what their bosses in the Council want (legal mass scanning).
3. S&D who authored the amendments in the first place voted for extending Chat Control.
4. The Greens voted against the extension because they prefer no Chat Control law at all.
We need lists and lists to keep those fascists accountable in the future. A paneuropean database of bootlicking treacherous elements to keep track of.
I don’t like saying this,
but right now is the moment when we should go into the party offices of the EPP supporters and tell them face to face to not try this shit again. Otherwise it will happen again.
Wow, great news, this shit is really disturbing.
Fermez juste les plateformes de Meta en Europe, ainsi que X, et 90% des problématiques d’abus de mineurs en ligne seront réglés déjà.
What’s the state of age verification in the EU? Is there any actual opposition to it (like on the grounds of violating existing privacy laws and are there parties that oppose it)?
I am not in the EU but I fear if it passes there it will end up coming here as well.
What is the win here? Preventing platforms scanning for scams?
Conservatives really just exist to make life worse for everyone, don’t they?
They should be raked over the coals over how little they are doing to “save the children” from people they currently know are a threat. Bullshit artists.
On Thursday, Parliament voted to not prolong an interim derogation from e-Privacy rules allowing service providers to voluntarily detect child sexual abuse online.
With 228 votes in favour, 311 against, and 92 abstentions, MEPs rejected the Commission proposal, closing EP first reading on extending an existing derogation of the [ePrivacy Directive](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=celex%3A32002L0058). The purpose of the proposed extension was to continue temporary measures while negotiations continue on a long-term legal framework to prevent and combat child sexual abuse online.
The Parliament [position, adopted on 11 March 2026,](https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20260306IPR37531/child-sexual-abuse-online-support-for-extending-rules-until-august-2027) favoured extending the measures for a shorter period (until August 2027) than the Commission proposal and with narrower scope to ensure the measures remain proportional and targeted.
Negotiations with Council on the proposal [did not lead to an agreement](https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20260316IPR38230/child-sexual-abuse-online-statement-by-rapporteur-on-extending-temporary-rules). The interim regulation will therefore expire after 3 April 2026.
**Background**
The voluntary exemption [was already extended in 2024](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32024R1307). Parliament has been ready for negotiations on the permanent framework [since November 2023](https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20231117IPR12219/child-sexual-abuse-online-meps-ready-to-start-negotiations). Since Council adopted its position [in November 2025](https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/11/26/child-sexual-abuse-council-reaches-position-on-law-protecting-children-from-online-abuse/?utm_source=brevo&utm_campaign=AUTOMATED%20-%20Alert%20-%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_id=3318), talks on the permanent law have been ongoing.
Where do I check how each MEP voted?
[Here](https://www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/votes.html?tab=votes# banner_session_live) you will find the roll call lists of voters, a direct link to download the PDF is [here](https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-03-26-RCV_EN.pdf) (700 kb) – see page 15.
All my homies hate EPP