The legislation: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2021-0319_EN.html https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2021-0319... Press rel

The legislation: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2021-0319_EN.html https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2021-0319... Press release: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20210701IPR07503/parliament-adopts-temporary-rules-to-detect-child-sexual-abuse-online https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20210701IP... Summary from the above link: > Service providers can continue applying voluntary measures to detect, remove and report child sexual abuse content > National data protection authorities will have stronger oversight of the technologies used > Temporary solution for maximum three years According to the text of legislation, looks like this kind of scanning was allowed until Dec 21st 2020 when it become affected by a stricter privacy directive, and this reallows such scanning.