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The police will be able to read our Whatsapp messages if this law is passed

2024-06-23 08:50:12Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The police will be able to read our Whatsapp messages if this law is passed
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Ministers from the 27 member states have once again pushed back the controversial European law, which requires popular messaging systems such as Whatsapp to introduce mandatory automatic scanning of messages to identify any child pornographic material.

This scan is based on artificial intelligence, which then sends reports to the judicial authorities of individual EU countries.

For opponents of the law, it is a very dangerous tool of mass surveillance. That is why there is division between the member states: Italy is in favor, France is in doubt, Germany is against.

At a later date

On Thursday (20 June) the broad front against Chatcontrol "celebrated" another postponement of national governments. The Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU had tried to shake hands by placing the voting of the law on the agenda. But given political disagreements and pressure from privacy activists, the vote was postponed to a later date.

It is the second postponement of this discussion in two days, but according to an EU diplomat contacted by the Dutch website Hln "this remains an important priority" for the EU. At the moment, a new date on which this discussion will resume has not been announced. But it is likely, at this point, that the Hungarian presidency, which will take over the Belgian baton at the head of the Council on 1 July, will take care.

Regulation "Chatcontrol".

Proposed in 2022 by Swedish Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson, the official name of the law would be the "Child Sexual Abuse Regulation", but it has been renamed by politicians and the media as the "Chatcontrol Regulation".

The most controversial point of the text involves the systematic scanning by artificial intelligence of messages sent between digital users in search of content documenting the sexual abuse of minors or the distribution of child pornography. In other words, it would involve "breaking" the end-to-end encryption that has ensured the security of data and chats of users of instant messaging platforms (such as Whatsapp, Signal, Messenger, etc.) for years.

According to critics of the law, a diverse front that includes national political parties, MEPs, sectoral associations and various digital experts, has major critical issues in the new regulatory framework, which would sacrifice the privacy and security of users without even getting the results. expected in the fight against crime. The technology on which the Chatcontrol regulation would be based would in fact be "unreliable", that is, it would not guarantee the detection of all illegal material, but, on the contrary, could lead to the unfair accusation of users. Additionally, the provision would weaken the security guarantee provided by end-to-end encryption, opening the door to a mountain of sensitive data to hackers and hostile state and non-state actors.

Compromise is not enough

If initially the proposal included the scanning of all messages and multimedia content exchanged by users on these platforms, the compromise reached last May by the Belgian presidency of the EU provided for (among other things) the exclusion of audio files from digital filters. As a result, only visual content and links separated per message would fall under the radar of automated and human scanning by authorities.

This modification seemed to have won the measure of support from the French government, but apparently it was not enough. Further negotiations between member states would now be necessary, reports Hln, citing a European diplomat, according to whom the desire remains to "continue talks in a calm atmosphere". Moreover, the French government itself looks set to change its political complexion within weeks, given the likely victory of the Transalpine far-right in legislative elections at the end of the month, so the discussion could become even more complicated.


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