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# The battle to stop Chat Control continues, act now!
- URL: https://www.privacyguides.org/newsletters/2025/09/23/the-battle-to-stop-chat-control-continues-act-now/
- Published: 2025-09-23T06:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-23T06:30:00.000Z
- Description: Unfortunately, the battle against Chat Control continues this month. For human rights, for civil liberties, for safety, and for democracy, this privacy-wrecking proposal must be stopped. We need your help to fight with us!
- Author: Em
- Tags: Newsletters

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The clock is ticking! Time is running out to stop Chat Control before the final vote on October 14th. Whether you are European or not, you can help! ✊🔒

If you've been following our reporting on Chat Control: 

**Bad news**: The proposal is going forward to be voted on on October 14th, and there's still no blocking minority achieved, as Germany reverted its position to undecided.

**Good news**: There is still time to fight back!

[Chat Control](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/09/08/chat-control-must-be-stopped/) refers to the latest iteration of a series of legislative proposals that would mandate scanning all private digital communications in the European Union. This would include end-to-end encrypted services, effectively creating a backdoor and breaking encryption.

Even if you are not European, the proposed legislation would set a dangerous precedent for civil liberties and democracies worldwide. Chat Control proposes an unprecedented **escalation of authoritarian mass surveillance** and infringement on fundamental human rights.

Cryptography professor Matthew Green described the 2022 version of Chat Control as "[**the most terrifying thing I've ever seen**](https://fortune.com/2022/05/12/europe-phone-surveillance-crackdown-child-sexual-abuse-material-sparks-outrage-among-cybersecurity-experts-privacy-activists/)".

This month, a [joint statement](https://csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025) submitted on September 9th and **signed by more than 700 scientists and researchers** reports that "it is simply **not feasible** to perform detection of known and new CSAM \[Child Sexual Abuse Material\] for hundreds of millions of users with an acceptable level of accuracy." It adds that the new proposal would "create **unprecedented capabilities for surveillance, control, and censorship** and has an inherent risk for function creep and abuse."

Despite strong and repeated opposition from human rights activists, digital rights activists, scientists, cryptography experts, and child protection organizations, the proposal will be put forward for a final vote by EU member states on October 14th.

It is critical to stop this dystopian mass-surveillance legislation.

## What can you do to help?

📮 For European Citizens: **Contact your representatives now**, to make sure they receive your message ahead of the vote on October 14th. You can use this [**easy tool**](https://fightchatcontrol.eu/) created by Fight Chat Control to contact them with only a few clicks.

📰 For European Citizens: **Contact your local media now**, to make sure they have enough time to talk about it ahead of the vote on October 14th. Share your concerns and ask if they plan to cover this topic before the final vote. Bring them accurate information to counter disinformation they might have received from lobbyists.

✊ For Everyone: **Spread the word on social media**. Tell others to contact their representatives and contact their local media. Write about it, talk about it, and share accurate information to counter disinformation.

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You can learn more about Chat Control, why it's a terrifying proposal, and how it would harm everyone inside and outside of Europe (including the children), by reading our article on the topic:

[Chat Control Must Be Stopped, Act Now!Chat Control is back to undermine everyone’s privacy. There’s an important deadline on October 14th, 2025\. We must act now to stop it!![](https://www.privacyguides.org/content/images/icon/favicon-32x32-5.png)Privacy GuidesEm![](https://www.privacyguides.org/content/images/thumbnail/chat-control-must-be-stopped-1.png)](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/09/08/chat-control-must-be-stopped/)

Keep fighting for privacy rights!  
[Em](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/author/em)