US EditionTelecommunications - There Will Be No Automated Scans at Whatsapp and Co. in the Eu for the Time Being
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For the time being, there will not be an indiscriminate and mandatory control of chats by Whatsapp, Signal and others for child pornographic content in the EU. According to EU diplomats, corresponding plans did not find the necessary majority among the member states. Germany was also opposed to the project.
Children's pornographic content should be found easier – but the data protection concerns against a mandatory, automatic review of private communications are too large. Germany was also against it. It should stay with voluntary scans.
Automated scans at Whatsapp and Co.? The EU Commission wanted messages to be checked automatically to combat child pornography - but Germany and other countries did not.
Automated scans at Whatsapp and Co.? The EU Commission wanted to have messages checked automatically to deal with child pornography – but Germany and other countries didn't. For the time being, there will not be any casual and mandatory control of chats by Whatsapp, Signal and Co. for child pornographic content in the EU. Appropriate plans do not find the necessary majority among the EU countries and should therefore be deleted, according to EU …
The Danish presidency is backing down from the idea of forcing Big Tech companies to scan private chat and instant messaging communications as part of a drive to combat child abuse.
Finally a good news: the EU plans for chat control are getting shaken – thanks to Denmark. Copenhagen had submitted the draft itself – and is withdrawing it now. And Germany? Rather stay out of it. Denmark stops chat control – and the EU monitors first appeared on reitschuster.de.
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