EU legislators on Wednesday, reached a consensus on draft regulations mandating Alphabet’s Google, Meta, and other internet companies to detect and eliminate child pornography from the internet.
The European Commission’s draught rule on child sexual abuse material, which was put up last year, has caused controversy among proponents of online safety measures and privacy campaigners who are concerned about monitoring.
The current method of voluntary detection and reporting by enterprises has proven to be insufficient to protect minors, leading the European Union executive to develop the CSAM plan.
The proposed law requires internet access providers, messaging services, and app stores to report and delete new and known photographs and videos, along with instances of grooming.
Companies would also be free to select the technology they use to find these offences, provided that it is open to an impartial, public audit.
Privacy campaigners applauded the MPs’ decision to remove end-to-end encryption from the draught regulations.
EU legislators on Wednesday, reached a consensus on draft regulations mandating Alphabet’s Google, Meta, and other internet firms to detect and eliminate child pornography from the internet.
The European Commission’s draught rule on child sexual abuse material, which was put up last year, has caused controversy among proponents of online safety measures and privacy campaigners who are concerned about monitoring.
The current method of voluntary detection and reporting by enterprises has proven to be insufficient to protect minors, leading the European Union executive to develop the CSAM plan.
The proposed law requires internet access providers, messaging services, and app stores to report and delete new and known photographs and videos, along with instances of grooming.
Companies would also be free to select the technology they use to find these offences, provided that it is open to an impartial, public audit.
Privacy campaigners applauded the MPs’ decision to remove end-to-end encryption from the draught regulations.
