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EU prepares to vote on proposed regulation to scan messaging apps
The European Union (EU) will vote on a proposal that could require messaging apps to scan their users' private texts.
Thursday will see the EU vote on the new proposed regulation, following in the footsteps of previous attempts from the UK government and Apple to scan messages for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Speaking to Hacker News, Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation said: “Mandating mass scanning of private communications fundamentally undermines encryption. “Providers will have to deploy technologies that are the least privacy-intrusive in accordance with the state of the art in the industry, and that limit the error rate of false positives to the maximum extent possible,” the EU explained.
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