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Will all private messages be scanned and forwarded by companies soon? Berlin/Brussels – The EU Commission is putting millions of citizens and experts into turmoil with a plan to read cell phone messages! Specifically, it concerns the “Ordinance on the Prevention and Combating of Sexual Abuse of Children”.The EU Council is due to vote on it next Tuesday. What exactly is it about? ► Brussels wants to use the regulation to prevent child porn from being sent via cell phone. How should this be implemented? ► According to the draft dated October 3rd, providers of messaging services (e.g. Meta on WhatsApp, Signal, etc.) will in future examine photos, videos, etc. in cell phone messages for criminal content before they are sent in encrypted form.Suspected cases should be reported to EU authorities.Only pure text messages and audio files should be excluded – for now. Mette Frederiksen (47) is Prime Minister of Denmark Who is for it? ► The initiative comes from Denmark – there are also many supporters in other EU countries. Is there resistance? Yes!The fear of many experts is that the back door creates the opportunity for the state to read other messages and thus spy on users. ► Bernhard Rohleder (60), managing director of the IT association Bitkom, to BILD: “Instead of blindly scanning data, police and investigators need the latest technology at the highest level and more specialists to track down perpetrators.” ► Child Protection Vice President Joachim Türk: "The investigative authorities are already confronted with an almost unbelievable amount of data that they have to sift through and evaluate. Forces are tied up that would be better used in investigation and prevention." The federal chairman of the German Police Union, Rainer Wendt (68) ► Rainer Wendt, Chairman of the German Police Union: "Chat controls, by whomever, are the end of privacy, freedom of expression and democracy. As a trade unionist, I depend on confidential communication, for example with journalists, colleagues or politicians." Moritz Körner (35, FDP MEP and Secretary General in North Rhine-Westphalia): "The EU chat control is Stasi 2.0. With it, digital correspondence and the privacy of all EU citizens would be dead." Can this still be stopped? ► Yes – especially from Germany!In fact, the draft also depends on the federal government's stance.On Tuesday, the CDU/CSU parliamentary group said it rejected chat control. What do the providers say? ► Meredith Whittaker, head of the messenger service Signal: “If we were given the choice of either undermining the integrity of our encryption or leaving Europe, we would leave the market.”