In its new draft for combating child abuse online, the EU is abandoning chat control. Instead: risk assessments and voluntary measures
In its new draft for combating child abuse online, the EU is abandoning chat control. Instead: risk assessments and voluntary measures
Recently it feels like the news on this are flipping each week.
EU wants chat control.
EU does not want chat control.
EU want chat control (again).
EU backs awax from chat control (for now).
I have lost track.
No, you don’t have lost track. You are simply reading actual articles and propaganda.
This -for example- is the latter. No, that decision is not the EU backing away from chat control but quite the opposite. They have build the foundation for creating mass surveilance infrastructure without the courts shutting them down as usual because it’s voluntary. Up to the moment there is a reasonable big distraction or some neat pretext and it suddenly isn’t voluntary anymore and fully running just the next day.
That’s the point. Don’t let them.
It’s almost like the EU is not a homogeneous bloc…
It was and it is. But make no mistake it was due to the critics and imo petitions that it didn’t pass. Some memberstates like Spain and Hungary wanted it very strongly.