1/3 New "solution" from the @eu2024be on #ChatControl fails #HumanRights on all counts!
We're looking at:Forced consent
Mass scanning of private messages
Undermining encryption
Punishing privacy-enhancing services & rewarding those that violate people’s privacy
Read more: https://edri.org/our-work/be-scanned-or-get-banned/
2/3 The new #ChatControl proposal suggests that providers of private communications services must:
ask people to consent to faulty AI-based scanning of their private chats, OR
BAN them from sharing images, videos & URLs!
Read more: https://edri.org/our-work/be-scanned-or-get-banned/
3/3 There is NO magical solution to child sexual abuse.
The mass scanning of people's private chats leaves people VULNERABLE to malicious security attacks.
We need multi-faceted societal-level and political solutions. Alternative approaches exist: https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EDRi-Position-Paper-CSAR.pdf
@edri
Where are the basic on the ground investigations on the people that do those things, using infiltration and police practice? Wait a minute, these are more expensive, right?