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Protecting Children's Safety Requires End-to-End Encryption
As lawmakers grapple with the serious issue of child exploitation online, some proposed solutions would fuel the very problem they aim to solve. Despite expert warnings, the Belgian Presidency persists in pushing for the implementation of client-side scanning on encrypted messaging services, rebranding the effort as "upload moderation".
The core issue is that compromising encryption and privacy makes innocent people vulnerable to malicious hackers and criminals seeking to exploit users data. A case in point is the recent criminal charges against Meta in New Mexico, which highlights how the tech giant's algorithms enabled child exploitation by encouraging connections between minors and sexual predators. It is critical to redirect the discourse to focus on taking genuine privacy further by protecting against metadata hoarding and other means by which people’s data can be abused or subjected to surveillance.
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