The EU Wants Big Tech to Scan Your Private Chats for Child Abuse
May 12, 2022
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All your WhatsApp photos, iMessage texts, and Snapchat videos could be scanned to check for child sexual abuse images and videos under newly proposed European rules. The plans, experts warn, may undermine the end-to-end encryption that protects billions of messages sent every day and hamper people's online privacy.
The European Commission has revealed long-awaited proposals aimed at tackling the huge volumes of child sexual abuse material, also known as CSAM, uploaded to the web each year. The proposed law creates a new EU Centre to deal with child abuse content and introduces obligations for tech companies to "detect, report, block and remove" CSAM from their platforms. The law, announced by Europe's commissioner for home affairs, Ylva Johansson, says tech companies have failed to voluntarily remove abuse content and has been welcomed by child protection and safety groups.
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