Well, it seems to be true. According to what I’ve read, they, under the fierce leadership of Queen Ursula, have tried since 2019 to get something like this implemented.
Here is
a video on the topic (also in English) by Dutchman Arno Wellens (who regularly works with Catherine Austin Fitts), which basically explains the following (from 07:00 onwards):
As per its first version, all commercial digital messaging providers would be required to perform indiscriminate scanning of
all private messages to look for CSAM. That failed, due to privacy concerns and lack of support from countries. Then Victor Orbán launched a proposal to let the regulation only cover existing CSAM material that was known by the police forces, but that proposal also failed because of privacy issues and lack of sufficient support. [BTW the
European Court of Human Rights issued a verdict in 2024 to ban all legal efforts to weaken the encryption of secure communications in Europe.] An EU document shown in the video states that the reason for the proposal was not to put more pedo-perverts behind bars, but for reasons of
compliance costs: the commercial providers of digital messaging services would have had to retain lawyers etc. to deal with the regulations, and those costs for the internal EU market would have to come down, so, Arno explains, the investigation of CSAM can be put under the header "internal EU market," thereby making it a financial issue, meaning that the European Commission has the power to make laws and avoid ethical discussions.
Now basically the old Chat Control version is back, and all of a sudden the majority of the countries is pro, which Arno finds very strange. Denmark drafted a "A Strong Europe in a Changing World' document, in which the Chat Control proposal is contained, which is potentially adoptable by October 14, 2025, stating basically that criminals use digital tech (duh!), so we must go and look for data.
All data, all private communications, including encrypted ones, so also grandma's summer BBQ pic of little Vicky, while real pedo criminals seem to use USB sticks, which Arno says is the real problem, but that isn't covered by the proposal. Now the proposal is before the European Parliament, and countries voting against must determine their position (by 12th september). So far the video.
However, this
article of 6th August from TechRadar, titled "A 'political blackmail' – states that the EU Parliament is pressing for new mandatory scanning of your private chats," and discusses the EU Parliament's push to adopt a controversial child sexual abuse material (CSAM) scanning bill, dubbed "Chat Control," during Denmark's EU Presidency starting July 1, 2025.
A leaked memo, the article says, reveals the Parliament is pressuring the Council to agree to mandatory scanning by threatening to block an extension of the current voluntary scanning interim regulation, a move criticized as "political blackmail" by former German MEP Patrick Breyer (Arno Wellens mentions him also in his video).
BTW, the current plan, naturally 
, exempts government, (some) corporate and military accounts.
According to the article, countries like Italy, Spain, and Hungary support it, while Germany and others remain undecided, with a decision deadline set for
September 12, 2025. The Danish government plans to hold a
decisive vote on October 14, 2025. Arno, and others on X f.i., think if Germany greenlights it, the law has a good chance to be implemented. Critics argue the measure risks mass surveillance and many false positives, while the EU Commission’s broader 'ProtectEU strategy' aims to enhance law enforcement access to encrypted data by 2030. I will definitely keep my eye on it.
From comments on X and some other articles, f.i.
this one, critics expect that the regulation is
technically impossible to execute, leading me to think that the CSAM excuse is a ruse and, if passed, the regulation mainly aims for restricting, or banning, free speech especially of dissenters, gear up the fear factor, spark more division, and mass surveillance of we, the taxpaying people.
