*LEAK: Commission to force scanning of communications to combat child
pornography*
By Mathieu Pollet | EURACTIV.com
May 10, 2022
/The European Commission is to put forward a generalised scanning
obligation for messaging services, according to a draft proposal
obtained by EURACTIV./
The text marks a victory for child advocates, but a setback for privacy
activists. The European executive is to unveil on Wednesday (11 May) its
proposal to fight the online circulation of child sexual abuse material
– CSAM in short.
“Providers of hosting services and providers of interpersonal
communication services that have received a detection order shall
execute it by installing and operating technologies to detect” CSAM upon
request by the competent judicial authority or independent
administrative authority, the draft regulation states.
The text says that the technologies used to this end must be
“effective”, “sufficiently reliable”, “state of the art in the industry”
and “the least intrusive” so that they won’t “be able to extract any
other information from the relevant communications than the information
strictly necessary to detect.”
[…]
Continua qui:
https://www.euractiv.com/section/data-protection/news/leak-commission-to-force-scanning-of-communications-to-combat-child-pornography/
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