Chat applications would be required to check private messages for child abuse under new EU laws. The European Bill proposes a difficult new law that would oblige chat applications. Like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger to check users.
Digital data for CSAM and “grooming” activity. The concept is similar to Apple’s plans from last year, but critics argue it is far more intrusive.
Following the reporting of a draft of the law earlier this week, privacy experts struck it. Crypto professor Matthew Green tweeted, “This document is the most shocking thing I’ve ever seen.” “It details the most advanced domestic spying apparatus ever deployed outside.” “I’m not lying.”
The rule would impose a variety of new requirements on “internet service providers,”. Which includes app stores, hosting businesses, and any other supplier of “social language service.”
Networks like WhatsApp, Signal, and Facebook Messenger would be subject to the most demanding. If a corporation in this group receives a “detection order” from the EU. It must scan selected users’ messages for known child sexual abuse material. The context of photographs and text messages in these two types of information.
Individual EU countries would issue “detection orders,” which the Commission argues.
“It fully opens the door for far more widespread surveillance.”
In an invasive and broad manner to target vast groups of people. “The plan allows but does not need that [the orders] be targeted. ” Ella Jakubowska, a policy advisor at EDRi, told The Verge. “It fully opens the door for far more broad spying.”
According to privacy experts, the idea could substantially weaken (or perhaps disrupt) end-to-end encryption. Although the proposal does not expressly call for the termination of encrypted services. Experts warn that requiring companies to install any software.
The EU considers it essential to identify CSAM in their systems would effectively render robust end-to-end encryption impossible. Because the EU influenced global digital policy. These restrictions could extend around the world, especially to totalitarian countries.
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