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Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights (2022)
fundamental rights The Chat Control regulations aims to combat sexual violence against children. In this blog post we explain why the draft is a threat to fundamental rights.
Felix Reda explains the five biggest threats for our fundamental rightsThe EU Commission's draft regulation on chat control is currently being negotiated in the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers. Additionally, unlike data retention, which is also incompatible with the Charter but is limited to metadata – i.e. information about who communicated with whom at what time – chat control includes the surveillance of the contents of private messages. These are only compatible with the prohibition of general monitoring obligations if the filters function so faultlessly that the service providers do not have to perform an "independent assessment of the content" in order to rule out false positives.
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