Short answer: On July 9, 2026 the European Parliament voted 314 to 276 to kill mass chat scanning, and the law passed anyway through a procedural back door. The text in force is Regulation (EU) 2026/1881, and the fight that matters next is September, when Chat Control 2.0 returns. Here is the timeline, what the… Continue reading Chat Control 1.0 Passed Through the Back Door (EU, 2026)
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EU Chat Control 2026: The Deadline Every Builder Should Know
Short answer: Chats get closed, scanned, or asked for ID in 2026 for three reasons, and they stack in order: an encryption backdoor that makes the transport readable, an identity checkpoint that requires verified accounts before anyone can send, and a wallet deadline that pushes the same check down into the payment layer. The EU… Continue reading EU Chat Control 2026: The Deadline Every Builder Should Know
