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A Hollywood star lobbies the EU for more surveillance
The European Union debates a new law that could force platforms to scan all private messages for signs of child abuse. Its most prominent advocate is the actor Ashton Kutcher.
Thorn „has over 30 clients around the world and their pricing mechanism aims to allow smaller players to use their services,“ lobbyists said in a meeting with Werner Stengg, a senior digital policy advisor to Commission Vice President Vestager. It is crucial to „create long-term legal certainty for the protection of children on the Internet through the discovery, reporting and deletion of child abuse material and to establish a European Center,“ said Thorn CEO Julie Cordua according to German-language quotes e-mailed by the spokeswoman. In a seven-page position paper Thorn sent to Swedish EU diplomats in the fall of 2021, the organization touted the success of its „Safer“ software, saying that it had already been used to send 183,000 suspected cases of abuse to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) since 2019.
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