Today, the European Parliament allowed the suspicionless mass scanning of private communications ("Chat Control 1.0") to pass, a measure it had rejected twice in March. Although a majority of voting Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) actually opposed the regulation (314 against, 276 in favor,
In the EU private digital communication is protected by the eprivacy directive and providers aren’t allowed to scan private message without a reason. The law allows providers to scan for illegal content (without stuff like a court order that would allow it anyway).