Image of an excerpt from an EU Council document ("Statement by Italy"). Italy criticizes the current draft on chat control, expressing concern over authorizing private, mostly non-European providers to conduct mass scanning without proper safeguards. Italy proposes two amendments: a) Ex-ante/ex-post controls by a national authority to ensure proportionality and compliance with EU and Human Rights jurisprudence. b) In line with data protection authorities, "voluntary" detection by providers must be limited to looking only for "known" material. Mass scanning for completely unknown material or sifting through chats for potential grooming is explicitly rejected.