EU Data protection agencies disagree with proposal to combat child abuse

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EU proposal to prevent and combat child sexual abuse contains client side scanning

Tomorrow, the EU commission presents the proposal titles laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse. Today, Politico leaked the official proposal: https://twitter.com/presroi/status/1524014880474476544/photo/1 However, the proposal entails the point to scan every device, such as a smartphone, on the client side to find possible content showing child sexual abuse. A lot of experts and scientists already published in 2021 a paper titled Bugs in our Pockets: The Risks of Client Side Scanning when the topic already was in the news as Apple was elaborating to deploy such a technology.
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