This feedback involves a review of the draft Regulation, which sets out the responsibilities of relevant online service providers, requires them to detect and report child sexual abuse online, to report that material to public authorities, and creates a European centre to prevent and counter child sexual abuse.
In its response, CDT Europe has focused on its core mission to strengthen individual rights and freedoms in the digital age. We emphasise the broad scope of the draft Regulation and the fundamental rights implications stemming from the inclusion of mass surveillance and filtering measures, in particular for the freedoms of opinion, expression and association, but also for end-to-end encryption.
Op-Ed: France’s Constitutional Council Ruling Tests the Limits of Social Media Bans
Read our analysis the legal and policy significance of the Constitutional Council’s decision on ongoing social media age restriction and age assurance debates ahead of the most-anticipated EU-wide approach on child online safety due by December 2026.
British Public Oppose Secret Surveillance Powers and Want Strong Protections for Encrypted Communications
CDT released nationally representative polling data revealing that a the British public are broadly concerned about the security, privacy, and free speech consequences of allowing law enforcement to access encrypted communications.
Responding to the EU-US Negotiations on Reciprocal Data Exchanges for Border Procedures
CDT Europe, together with 29 other civil society organisations and academics, sent an open joint letter to the Council of the EU regarding the worrying direction taken by the European Commission in the EU-US border negotiations with the U.S. government.
Open Joint Letter on a Public Reassessment of the EU-US Adequacy Decision
On 29 June, the US Supreme Court ruled that US President Trump can remove the leaders of independent agencies and commissions, overturning nearly 90 years of precedent limiting executive power. This decision raises serious questions about one of the key safeguards underpinning the EU-US Data Privacy Framework adopted in 2023: independent supervision.
