The European Union introduced a bill that obliges Meta and Google to detect and remove such content in order to prevent child abuse and pornography on the internet.
In total, in 27 countries around the world in 2020 more than 1 million Child abuse report received. Although these harassment incidents are physically prevented, unfortunately, child abuse on the internet continues to increase. With the pandemic 67% It is getting harder and harder to prevent these ‘online harassment’ incidents, which are increasing in rate.
Wanting to put a stop to these increasing harassment cases, the European Union Commission asked Google and Meta to find and delete content and conversations containing harassment and child pornography. The annual income of companies that do not remove these contents will confiscate 6% EU officials stated that everything needed to be done must be done for this to happen. Google and Meta’s officials are against this situation. they are worried expressed.
End-to-end encryption may be a thing of the past!
This system, which is stated in the draft law published today, will replace the system previously named ‘Voluntary detection and notification’. According to this system, Google and Meta will detect and block child abuse and pornographic content, if necessary, ignoring user privacy. In the draft law published “The proposed rules mandate the detection and removal of risky content (child molestation and pornography) found on the systems of online service providers.‘ was included.
WhatsApp, the sub-company of Meta, which will be affected by the system, announced that they refrained from this decision. Will Carthcart, executive director of the popular messaging app, said in a tweet, “It’s really disappointing that EU regulations ignore end-to-end encryption.”
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A spokesperson for Meta said:We plan to maintain end-to-end encryption of users’ messages and information while enforcing these sanctions. end-to-end encryption, including children It protects the information of billions of people.He explained that necessary steps will be taken.
In order for the draft law to become law, the EU countries should support this decision and jointly needs to be enacted.
Source :
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-moves-better-protect-children-against-online-sexual-abuse-2022-05-11/