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Il 20/06/24 13:43, Daniela Tafani ha scritto:
> EU cancels vote on child sexual abuse law amid encryption concerns
>
> Countries clash over how to safeguard privacy when rooting out illegal
> pictures and grooming on private chat apps.
>
> une 20, 2024 12:29 pm CET
> By Clothilde Goujard
>
> A vote scheduled today to amend a draft law that may require WhatsApp and
> Signal to scan people’s pictures and links for potential child sexual abuse
> material was removed from European Union countries' agenda, according to
> three EU diplomats.
>
> Ambassadors in the EU Council were scheduled to decide whether to back a
> joint position on an EU regulation to fight child sexual abuse material
> (CSAM). But many EU countries including Germany, Austria, Poland, the
> Netherlands and the Czech Republic were expected to abstain or oppose the
> law over cybersecurity and privacy concerns.
>
> "In the last hours, it appeared that the required qualified majority would
> just not be met," said an EU diplomat from the Belgian presidency, which is
> spearheading negotiations until end June as chair of the EU Council.
>
> The draft law, proposed in 2022, has drawn controversy for potentially
> forcing messaging apps to scan all images and links to find and report child
> abuse material and conversations between potential offenders and minors,
> known as grooming. Privacy groups have cried foul over the law, saying it
> effectively breaks end-to-end encrypted messaging.
>
> European Commission Vice President Věra Jourová said Thursday the
> Commission's original proposal meant “that even encrypted messaging can be
> broken for the better protection of children.”
>
> The Belgian Council presidency has been trying for the last six months to
> solve a deadlock among EU countries to move negotiations forward to finalize
> the law.
>
> Some EU heavyweights like Germany and Poland have backed privacy experts'
> warnings that it threatens privacy. Others like Ireland and Spain have
> insisted on the need for a strong law to monitor online content amid a spike
> in child sexual abuse material since the pandemic.
>
> Under the Belgians' plan, obtained by POLITICO earlier, messaging apps would
> scan pictures and links when users upload them via their services, and users
> would be informed of this under the terms and conditions. Users who refused
> the regime would be blocked from sending pictures and links.
>
> Highly secure apps using end-to-end encryption like WhatsApp, Signal and
> Messenger would also have to respect such measures. The draft proposal
> however exempted “accounts used by the State for national security purposes."
>
> Once EU countries agree on a joint position, they will still have to
> negotiate the final version of the law with the European Parliament and
> European Commission. Parliament has taken a more privacy-friendly stance in
> its own version of the law adopted in November 2023.
>
>
> https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-council-cancels-vote-on-encryption-breaking-child-sexual-abuse-law/
