Overview
- Parliament took up an AfD motion urging a German No vote on the EU proposal and referred it to committees without a binding decision.
- Governing-party speakers rejected indiscriminate surveillance of private messages and signaled support only for targeted measures tied to concrete suspicion.
- An SPD representative said there should be no mandate for client-side scanning and no weakening of end-to-end encryption.
- The planned EU Council vote was pulled from the mid-October agenda, with Berlin aiming to craft a compromise position by December.
- Experts, the BSI and the Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter warned of encryption risks and investigative overload, as voluntary CSAM screening by providers is set to expire in April 2026.