*Europol Sought Unlimited Data Access in Online Child Sexual Abuse
Regulation
*
/According to minutes released under FOI, the European police agency
pushed for unfiltered access to data that would be obtained under a
proposed new scanning system for detecting child sexual abuse images on
messaging apps, with a view, experts say, to training AI algorithms.
/
Apostolis Fotiadis, Luděk Stavinoha and Giacomo Zandonini
Athens, Norwich, Rome
BIRN
September 29, 202314:56
The European police agency, Europol, has requested unfiltered access to
data that would be harvested under a controversial EU proposal to scan
online content for child sexual abuse images and for the AI technology
behind it to be applied to other crimes too, according to minutes of a
high-level meeting in mid-2022.
The meeting, involving Europol Executive Director Catherine de Bolle and
the European Commission’s Director-General for Migration and Home
Affairs, Monique Pariat, took place in July last year, weeks after the
Commission unveiled a proposed regulation that would require digital
chat providers to scan client content for child sexual abuse material,
or CSAM.
The regulation, put forward by European Commissioner for Home Affairs
Ylva Johansson, would also create a new EU agency - the EU centre to
prevent and counter child sexual abuse. It has stirred heated debate,
with critics warning it risks opening the door to mass surveillance of
EU citizens.
[...]
continua qui:
https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/29/europol-sought-unlimited-data-access-in-online-child-sexual-abuse-regulation/
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