{"id":27540,"date":"2023-11-23T10:49:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T10:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/eu-lawmakers-back-rules-forcing-tech-to-tackle-child-pornography-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-11-23T10:49:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T10:49:12","slug":"eu-lawmakers-back-rules-forcing-tech-to-tackle-child-pornography-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/eu-lawmakers-back-rules-forcing-tech-to-tackle-child-pornography-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"EU lawmakers back rules forcing Tech to tackle child pornography | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EU lawmakers agreed on Wednesday to draft rules requiring Alphabet’s\u00a0Google, Meta and other online services to identify and remove online child pornography, saying that end-to-end encryption would not be affected.<\/p>\n

The draft rule on child sexual abuse material (CSAM), proposed by the European Commission last year, has been a bone of contention between advocates of online safety measures and privacy activists worried about surveillance.<\/p>\n

The European Union executive came up with the CSAM proposal after the current system of voluntary detection and reporting by companies proved to be insufficient to protect children.<\/p>\n

EU lawmakers have to thrash out the final details with member states before the draft can become legislation in a process that may be finalised next year.<\/p>\n

The proposed legislation forces messaging services, app stores and internet access providers to report and remove known and new images and videos, as well as cases of grooming.<\/p>\n

An EU Centre on Child Sexual Abuse will be set up to act as a hub of expertise and to forward reports to the police.<\/p>\n

To avoid mass surveillance, EU lawmakers beefed up detection orders to allow judicial authorities to authorise time-limited orders to find and delete CSAM. These can only be issued if there is reasonable grounds of suspicion of child sexual abuse.<\/p>\n

Companies would also be able to choose the technology used to detect such offences, as long as this is subject to an independent, public audit.<\/p>\n

The decision by lawmakers to exempt end-to-end encryption from the draft rules drew praise from privacy activists.<\/p>\n

“The European Parliament’s position removes indiscriminate chat control and allows only for targeted surveillance of specific individuals and groups reasonably suspicious of being linked to child sexual abuse material with a judicial warrant,” The European Liberal Youth (LYMEC) said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n