Europe’s plan to combat kiddie fiddlers worry privacy experts

Stefan Mileschin · 12th May 2022, 07:58

Turns out that it might just be an excuse to spy on everyone

The European Commission’s plan to combat child sexual abuse material online is already raising privacy concerns.

The proposal would allow courts in the EU to require companies to detect child sexual abuse material and grooming of children online and while this seems fair enough, it will technically mean that you are allowing private companies to spy on all their users.

Jan Penfrat at the European Digital Rights group posted on Twitter that the proposal looks like a “shameful” surveillance law “entirely unfitting for any free democracy.”

If the commission “got away with this proposal, the privacy of digital correspondence would be dead,” Moritz Körner, a German member of the European Parliament, said in a statement after a leaked draft began to circulate. “Private companies would be forced to play police, spy on their customers and report them to the state.”

https://fudzilla.com/news/54837-euro...rivacy-experts

12th May 2022, 07:58	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 153,514	Europe’s plan to combat kiddie fiddlers worry privacy experts Turns out that it might just be an excuse to spy on everyone The European Commission’s plan to combat child sexual abuse material online is already raising privacy concerns. The proposal would allow courts in the EU to require companies to detect child sexual abuse material and grooming of children online and while this seems fair enough, it will technically mean that you are allowing private companies to spy on all their users. Jan Penfrat at the European Digital Rights group posted on Twitter that the proposal looks like a “shameful” surveillance law “entirely unfitting for any free democracy.” If the commission “got away with this proposal, the privacy of digital correspondence would be dead,” Moritz Körner, a German member of the European Parliament, said in a statement after a leaked draft began to circulate. “Private companies would be forced to play police, spy on their customers and report them to the state.” https://fudzilla.com/news/54837-euro...rivacy-experts

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