Step intended to combat child sexual abuse online has been widely condemned as ineffective and in breach of fundamental rights
The proposal from the Belgian EU presidency strips basic privacy rights from all internet users, opens holes in European internet security and creates broader risks while inadequately addressing the problem of child sexual abuse material. Photograph: iStock
He is one of a very broad range of stakeholders fighting against a step that is widely seen as incompatible with guaranteed EU fundamental human rights, EU legislation such as the General Data Protection Regulation and existing European case law. This is the paper-world equivalent of having the state open and examine all correspondence, check every photo taken and examine every piece of writing or image shared with others
At least two of these, Threema and Signal, have indicated they will withdraw their apps from the EU if the vote goes through as proposed. Threema has called the proposals an “unprecedented mass-surveillance apparatus of Orwellian proportions”. One of their key objections is that little proof has been offered on the effectiveness of the proposed scanning techniques, which they described as “flawed”, not least because they produce many false positives which could translate to millions of people being wrongly suspected of grotesque crimes they have not committed.
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