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New EU push for chat control: Will messenger services be blocked in Europe?
On Monday a new version of the globally unprecedented EU bill aimed at searching all private messages and chats for suspicious content (so-called chat control or child sexual abuse regulation) was circulated and leaked by POLITICO soon after. According to the latest proposal providers would be free
‘Flooding our police with largely irrelevant tips on old, long known material will fail to save victims from ongoing abuse, and will actually reduce law enforcement capacities for going after predators. Breyer describes the ‘concession’ to restrict chat monitoring to supposedly ‘known’ illegal content as window-dressing: ‘Regardless of the objective – imagine the postal service simply opened and snooped through every letter without suspicion. Besides, it is precisely the current bulk screening for supposedly known content by Big Tech that exposes thousands of entirely legal private chats, overburdens law enforcement and mass criminalises minors.’
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