A controversial push by European Union lawmakers to legally require messaging platforms to scan citizens’ private communications for child sexual abuse A controversial push by European Union lawmakers to put a legal requirement on messaging platforms to scan citizens’ private digital communications if they receive an order to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM) could lead to millions of false positives per day, hundreds of security and privacy experts are warning in an open letter Thursday.
This is still quite far from becoming law. I applaud this second open letter for rightfully addressing major concerns with this proposal and I think the timing of it is right. This does show how difficult the line to thread between encryption and privacy on the one hand and fighting crime in the digital sphere like CSAM or communication between members of organized crime on the other hand is. Still, it is important to be very careful with these types of laws. After all, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I’m super fucking tired of having zero privacy. The fact that governments&corps can access records of everyone’s phone locations, their data, and communications — is frankly absurd