On November 1, 2025, the European Commission officially postponed the rollout of mass scanning of private messages for CSAM \u2014 the controversial Chat Control mechanism. This pause halted one of the EU\u2019s most debated initiatives, but in Germany, the discussion is heating up: The Federal Ministry of Justice has announced national measures under the Digital Services Act (DSA). While Brussels takes a breather, German authorities plan to require messengers, cloud services, and corporate platforms to deploy content detection tools \u2014 from client-side scanning to metadata retention.<\/p>\n
These measures directly impact Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (confidentiality of correspondence), Article 8 of the GDPR (data protection), and Article 5 of the German Basic Law (freedom of expression). The case law of the BVerfG and CJEU demands strict proportionality: similar provisions (\u00a7 100a StPO, TK\u00dcV) have already been declared partially unconstitutional.<\/p>\n
At risk are German SMEs with internal chat systems, international services with users in Germany, and open-source developers. DSA fines reach up to 6% of global annual turnover. National rules are expected to enter into force in 2026, which \u2014 according to legal experts \u2014 will trigger a wave of lawsuits in administrative courts and new cases in Karlsruhe.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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