tl;dr: The EU Parliament voted 331-304 to fast-track a renewed extension of "Chat Control," the expired regulation allowing companies like Meta and Google to voluntarily scan private messages for child sexual abuse material. A final vote is scheduled for Thursday, the last session before summer break, where procedural rules require an absolute majority (361 votes) to reject or amend—making passage likely as many MEPs have already left. Critics, including Pirate and AfD MEPs and IT security researchers, call it a procedural end-run around Parliament's earlier rejections and warn it enables mass surveillance with unreliable AI scanning.