Johansson proposes 'chat control' child-abuse regulation
On 11 May 2022 Ylva Johansson proposed an EU regulation requiring platforms to detect child sexual abuse material, which privacy groups criticised as enabling mass scanning of private messages.
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On 11 May 2022 Ylva Johansson proposed an EU regulation requiring platforms to detect child sexual abuse material, which privacy groups criticised as enabling mass scanning of private messages.
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Johansson proposes 'chat control' child-abuse regulation. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.
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Factrail. (2026). Johansson proposes 'chat control' child-abuse regulation. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/johansson-chat-control-proposal-2022-05-11
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Accessed 15 October 2026.
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