European Parliament Rejects Chat Control: Privacy Concerns Trump Mass Message Scanning - Commonwealth Union
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Data protection versus child protection: Platforms in the EU must leave private online communication untouched again. However, the dispute continues.
The Federal Government's Commissioner for Abuse, Kerstin Claus, complains: with the abolition of "chat control", perpetrators could no longer be identified.
European Parliament Rejects Chat Control: Privacy Concerns Trump Mass Message Scanning - Commonwealth Union
The controversial Chat Control proposal has been rejected by votes from Brussels, the European Parliament. The proposal, would have allowed illegal content to be scanned by tech companies, including content such as child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The decision was passed by a very thin and narrow margin, which highlights a prominent moment where the EU’s continuing debate heightened over digital safety as well as privacy. The European Commiss…
On April 3rd, the EU regulation 2021/1232 expires, which allowed US corporations to scan private news without reason and without a judge's decision (so-called chat control). The chairmen of the pirate party Germany, Kayra Kuyumcu, and the civil rights activist and former Euro MP Dr. Patrick Breyer present a 5-point action plan for effective child protection on this occasion. They publish statements of two abusers and demand: The end of mass surv…
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