EU Council pushes Chat Control mass-scanning plan its own lawyers warned is unlawful

The Council, Parliament and Commission met in Brussels for the sixth trilogue on the EU's CSAR regulation. The Council is advancing "search plans" that would let authorities scan entire "parts of a service" without individual suspects or judicial orders, despite its own Legal Service warning the CJEU would likely strike this down. Parliament insists on suspect-only scanning under court orders.

• Council plan would scan "parts of a service", not individual suspects
• Council's own lawyers: such surveillance likely unlawful under EU Charter
• Parliament demands judicial orders and rejects client-side scanning
• At stake: privacy of roughly 450 million EU messaging users