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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Jul 23, 2026

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The EU Council today adopted the European Parliament's version of #chatcontrol 1.0. The signing will take place tomorrow, without ceremony. Press release: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2026/07/23/fighting-child-sexual-abuse-online-interim-measure-protecting-children-now-reinstated/ (13/X)

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Jul 15, 2026

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Update: The EU Commission has accepted the European Parliament's 2nd reading amendments on the #chatcontrol 1.0 file - the ones protecting encrypted communication. So Council can now adopt it with qualified majority. https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/document/download/95bce1fc-cd35-40f3-a5f1-93d083192524_en?filename=CSA%20Interim%20Opinion%20on%20EP%20amendments.pdf (12/X)

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Jul 09, 2026

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One detail on the adopted amendments on protecting encrypted communication: They are specifically worded to also exclude client-side scanning, which is scanning of content before the encryption takes place for the transmission: "... interpersonal communications to which end-to-end encryption is, has been or will be applied". (11/X)

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Jul 09, 2026

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If you want to understand the exact voting procedure today, see the voting list here: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/sedcms/votingList/C10-0178.pdf And here you can see who voted how (point 2): https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-07-09-RCV_EN.html (10/X)

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Jul 09, 2026

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So the main fight is now on the limitations on the scanning in the long-term Regulation. The Parliament needs to stick to its very restrictve line to not allow general #chatcontrol, but only look into communications of specific suspects. Negotiations will resume after the summer recess in September. (9/X)

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Jul 09, 2026

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I expect the Council to approve the encryption amendments, because this is language already agreed in the negotiations on the long-term Regulation. (8/X)

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Jul 09, 2026

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So where are we? Parliament amended the Council position from first reading in its second reading (because the encryption amendments were adopted). Now, Council can accept it, and then this is it. If Council does not approve the amendments within three months, we go to Conciliation Committee and 3rd reading. See Article 294 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:12008E294:en:HTML (7/X)

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Jul 09, 2026

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See all amendments here: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/infos-details.html?id=1689&type=priorityInfo The one on specific suspects is Greens 5, the one on excluding known material is Greens 4/Renew 31/PfE 26, part one. The one on excluding scanning for solicitation is Greens 4/Renew 31/PfE 26, part 2. (In case you wonder: Patriots copied the Greens' amendment from March, and identical texts are voted together. Greens and Renew did not table them together with Patriots.) (6/X)

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Jul 09, 2026

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It is technically the same amendment, but the three parts were voted separately. (5/X)

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Jul 09, 2026

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Also, two amendments that would exclude the error-prone scanning for unknown material and for solicitation of children ("grooming") got a clear simple majority: 345+/237-/18a and 346+/254-/3a. Edit: To be clear, they were *not* adopted, since they failed to get an absolute majority of 360 votes. (4/X)

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Jul 09, 2026

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A core amendment from Greens, which limits the scanning to specific suspects, got a simple majority of 322 in favour, 255 against, 36 abstentions. Even though this was not sufficient for the required absolute majority, this sends a clear signal in view of the on-going negotiations on the long-term Regulation, where this is part of the Parliament's mandate. The Parliament wants to stick to this line, this became clear today. (3/X)

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · May 06, 2026

We are in the same room where the final negotiations on the #AIAct took place over 39 hours in December 2023. It might be haunted - still no agreement.

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Apr 12, 2026

Replying to @HowTheyVoteEU@eupolicy.social

@HowTheyVoteEU The second plenary vote had already been scheduled, based on the assumption that a trilogue agreement on another extension of chatcontrol 1.0 would need to be approved. And even if there was no such agreement, taking items off an already agreed plenary agenda can only be done by unanimity of political groups, or a vote at the beginning of the session. Both was prevented by EPP.

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Apr 03, 2026

Yess! Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 on "a temporary derogation from certain provisions of Directive 2002/58/EC as regards the use of technologies by providers of number-independent interpersonal communications services for the processing of personal and other data for the purpose of combating online child sexual abuse" https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A02021R1232-20240515, also known as #chatcontrol 1.0, just lapsed. It is illegal again to scan the content of private communications without initial suspicion.

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Mar 28, 2026

RE: @tazgetroete@mastodon.social

"Tech-Unternehmer kaufen einen Nachrichtensender" kann ernsthaft noch eine positive Meldung sein in 2026. Wow. Mal sehen, mit welcher Halbwertszeit.

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Mar 28, 2026

I will be in Hamburg on 31st March and will give a talk on the EU's Digital #Omnibus 'es that threaten our digital rights. Come join me at Nextmedia Space! The event is free, but they ask for registration. And yes, it will be in English. More here: https://nextmedia-hamburg.de/en/events/kalender/omni-who-what-will-happen-to-your-digital-rights-under-the-digital-omnibus-regulatory-changes/

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Mar 26, 2026

The extension of the temporary #chatcontrol 1.0 was rejected by the European Parliament today, bizarrely enough with votes by Greens, Left and EPP (for different reasons). First reading is closed, this was it. It will lapse on midnight of 3rd April. 😁

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Mar 20, 2026

https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/123951-000-A/gefaehrliche-apps-im-netz-der-datenhaendler/ Great investigation of @netzpolitik_feed@chaos.social and @br_data@ard.social on #databrokers
This should really trigger some blast from the authorities.
Edit: Now without Youtube, thanks to @leanderlindahl@social.folkdata.se for flagging it.

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Mar 16, 2026

Yay! @socialhack@chaos.social 's and my talk about the EU digital #omnibuses deregulating our digital rights was accepted for #republica26.

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Mar 16, 2026

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@_tillwe_ ... und KI-Steuerung!

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Mar 11, 2026

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@rzeta0@mathstodon.xyz It will be limited to those messengers that are not (yet) encrypted. This has always been the case.

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Mar 11, 2026

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The results of the roll-call votes are here: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-03-11-RCV_EN.pdf The amendment that limits it to "specific suspects" is amendment 5, pages 12-13. #chatcontrol

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Mar 11, 2026

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@rzeta0@mathstodon.xyz No no. At the end of Amendment 1, that was adopted first, there it says "(the processing is ...) not applied to interpersonal communications to which end-to-end encryption is, has been or will be applied"

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Mar 11, 2026

In a major win for digital privacy, the European Parliament just (again) limited all scanning of communications for child abuse material to specific suspects. No mass surveillance, no #chatcontrol. Now the negotiations with Member States will be interesting. They are already supposed to start tomorrow morning.

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Mar 02, 2026

The @europarl_en@respublicae.eu LIBE committe just rejected #chatcontrol 1.0, the extension of the temporary derogation from ePrivacy. Yeah!

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Dec 26, 2025

Der @socialhack@chaos.social und ich geben morgen (Tag 1) um 21:45 auf dem #39C3 einen Talk zur EU-Deregulierungsagenda, und wie die unsere Digitalrechte bedroht. Noch können wir etwas dagegen tun. https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/de/event/detail/throwing-your-rights-under-the-omnibus-how-the-eu-s-reform-agenda-threatens-to-erase-a-decade-of-digital-rights #EUdataP #AIAct #DataAct #OpenData

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Dec 23, 2025

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@markus_netzpolitik@chaos.social Gibt es die ganze Liste irgendwo?

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Feb 27, 2025

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@TabeaRoessner@gruene.social Ach du Scheiße. Alles alles Gute, bleib stark. Du schaffst das! 🙏💪🏻

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · May 17, 2024

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@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu @zegkljan@mastodonczech.cz @EDPS@social.network.europa.eu And who will continue the EU mastodon accounts that do not belong to the Commission? Can they also migrate to your new server?

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Ralf Bendrath @bendrath@eupolicy.social · Sep 23, 2023

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@markus_netzpolitik Pflegestufe 3?

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