US EditionEuropean Union Countries Abandon Plans for Mandatory Surveillance of Online Conversations
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The European Union (EU) has withdrawn controversial plans for a mandatory regulation on online chat monitoring, informally known as "Chat Control".
The EU will abandon the most criticized measure in the proposed law against child pornography, technology that would enable the scanning of private conversations.
D nemark, currently chairing the Council of the European Union, has abandoned its mandate for monitoring online communication in order to combat the spread of child pornography content.
After the EU's proposed regulation on the prevention of child sexual abuse failed to receive sufficient support from member states, the Danish presidency of the Council of the EU is now proposing, according to unofficial information from the STA, that technology companies continue to search for sexual abuse recordings in online chats on a voluntary basis. Thus, it has abandoned the option of mandatory review of chats.
The Danish Presidency of the Council proposes to allow chat control on a voluntary basis instead of making it mandatory. The EU states have already rejected this proposal once, whether they agree now, is open. Many actors reject a voluntary chat control – also the EU Commission. Danish Minister of Justice Peter Hummelgaard. – CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 Danish PresidencyInternet services should not be obliged to control chat, but the communication of their …
The Danish presidency of the European Union has scrapped the controversial plan for mandatory chat monitoring. However, the country continues to support other measures that critics say severely restrict online freedom, such as mandatory age verification and banning anonymous accounts. This is according to MEP Patrick Breyer, who calls the new proposal "a step in the right direction, but far from good enough."
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