Leaked internal documents cited by fightchatcontrol.eu show EU governments pushing a “compromise” based on “search plans” in the final trilogue on the Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (CSAR / “Chat Control 2.0”). The Council proposal would allow authorities to grant platforms a “license to scan” parts of their service — private chats and emails — for months at a time. The Council’s own legal service warned that scanning parts of a service is “highly probable” to be considered general and indiscriminate surveillance and illegal under EU law. Leaked documents also reveal a fallback plan to exclude non-public chats from the new regulation, keeping the temporary Chat Control 1.0 regime as a permanent parallel loophole. The European Parliament’s cross-party mandate instead proposes security-by-design measures, proactive web cleaning of public content, and targeted enforcement under judicial authorisation. https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-chat-control-governments-push-search-plans-to-permanently-legalise-chat-mass-scanning-in-final-trilogue-showdown/