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EU watchdog questions secrecy around lawmakers’ encryption-breaking CSAM scanning proposal
The European Commission has again been urged to more fully disclose its dealings with private technology companies and other stakeholders, in relation to The European Commission's has again been urged to make far fuller public disclosures about its dealings with private technology companies and other stakeholders in relation to a controversial piece of tech policy that could mandate the scanning of European Union citizens' private messages in a bid to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
Some of the information withheld relates to correspondence between the EU and private firms that could be potential suppliers of CSAM-scanning technology — meaning they stand to gain commercially from any pan-EU law mandating message scanning. In spite of growing alarm and opposition across a number of EU institutions, the Commission has continued to stand behind the controversial CSAM detection orders — ignoring warnings from critics the law could force platforms to deploy client-side scanning, with dire implications for European web users’ privacy and security. An ongoing lack of transparency vis-a-vis the EU executive’s decision-making process when it drafted the contentious legislation hardly helps — fueling concerns that certain self-interested commercial interests may have had a role in shaping the original proposal.
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