LEAK: Commission to force scanning of communications to combat child pornography

By Mathieu Pollet | EURACTIV.com

May 10, 2022

The European Commission is to put forward a generalised scanning obligation for messaging services, according to a draft proposal obtained by EURACTIV.

The text marks a victory for child advocates, but a setback for privacy activists. The European executive is to unveil on Wednesday (11 May) its proposal to fight the online circulation of child sexual abuse material – CSAM in short.

“Providers of hosting services and providers of interpersonal communication services that have received a detection order shall execute it by installing and operating technologies to detect” CSAM upon request by the competent judicial authority or independent administrative authority, the draft regulation states.

The text says that the technologies used to this end must be “effective”, “sufficiently reliable”, “state of the art in the industry” and “the least intrusive” so that they won’t “be able to extract any other information from the relevant communications than the information strictly necessary to detect.”

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