Tech world may face huge fines if it doesn't scrub CSAM from encrypted chats
through Parliament, states that British and foreign providers of a"regulated user-to-user service" must report child sexual exploitation and abuse content to the country's National Crime Agency. The amendment to the legislation makes it clear that companies must develop software capable of peering into end-to-end encrypted messages to actively detect and report CSEA material to the authorities – or face sanctions.
How well that computer-vision process would work in practice, and whether the false positive rate causes a significant amount of people's private and lawful chatter to be beamed to the government, remains to be seen. Netizens may also not trust that just CSEA content is being reported. "Things like end-to-end encryption significantly reduce the ability for platforms to detect child sexual abuse," the UK's Home Secretary Priti Patel – well, Home Secretary at time of writing on Wednesday –earlier in the day."The Online Safety Bill sets a clear legal duty to prevent, identify, and remove child sexual abuse content, irrespective of the technologies they use. Nobody can sensibly deny that this is a moral imperative.
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