The European Commission’s plan to fight the spread of child pornography by obliging messaging services like WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram to install detection software is a bad idea. A group of almost 200 scientists from 26 countries, including the Netherlands, said that in an urgent letter to Brussels about its bill to oblige “high risk” messaging services to install this software, NOS reports.
A controversial child sexual abuse material (CSAM)-scanning proposal that's under discussion by lawmakers in Europe is both the wrong response to tackling a sensitive and multifacted societal problem and a direct threat to democratic values in a free and open society, a seminar organized by the European Data Protection Supervisor heard yesterday. More than 20 speakers at the three hour event voiced opposition to a European Union legislative proposal that would require messaging services to scan the contents of users' communications for known and unknown CSAM, and to try to detect grooming taking place in real-time putting the comms of all users of apps subject to detection orders under an automatic and non-targeted surveillance dragnet. The European Commission has pushed back aggressively against this sort of criticism to date arguing the proposal is a proportionate and targeted response to a growing problem.
A controversial child sexual abuse material (CSAM)-scanning proposal that's under discussion by lawmakers in Europe is both the wrong response to tackling A controversial child sexual abuse material-scanning proposal under discussion by lawmakers in Europe is both the wrong response to tackling a sensitive and multifacted societal problem and a direct threat to democratic values in a free and open society, a seminar organized by the European Data Protection Supervisor heard yesterday.
In the first of three essays, Marc Steen outlines a three step process for how organisations can practically integrate ethics into their IT projects and how different ethical perspectives can inform tech development