In search of “child pornography”, the EU wants to have all private digital communications automatically analysed and, in case of a suspicion, reported to the police (so-called chat control). A currently …
Member of the European Parliament Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party) accuses Google of misleading the public in a recent communication[1] on its approach to tackling the circulation of illegal depictions of …
The second trilogue negotiation between Parliament, Commission and Council on the planned e-privacy derogation, which would allow providers of e-mail, messaging and chat services to search all private correspondence for possible …
An expert assessment published on February 8 by the European Parliamentary Research Service found that the automated screening of private emails and messages in search of child pornography and grooming (the …
The indiscriminate and error-prone automated screening of private emails and messages in search of child pornography and grooming by US corporations such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft is partly illegal. This …
The EU wants private e-mail, messaging and chat conversations to be screened for suspicious content generally and indiscriminately. On the eve of tomorrow’s European Data Protection Day, an international campaign against …
The number of EU Facebook users reported to the police for allegedly sharing illegal depictions of minors declined by 46% (from 1,100 a day to 600 a day) since the company …
Member of the European Parliament Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party) welcomes the decision by Facebook to suspend the error-prone mass screening of all private messages for prohibited depictions of minors with …
Today the European Parliament’s Civil liberties Committee voted to restrict the ePrivacy Directive which aims at protecting private communications. The Parliament accepts for the first time searching all electronic communications …
