Tag: Chatcontrol
Chat control: Suspension of Facebook‘s „incrimination machine“ protects the innocent and supports law enforcement!
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 …
Mass screening of electronic mail: Facebook suspends controversial ‘incrimination machine’
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 …
“Denunciation machine”: EU Parliament supports mass surveillance of e-mail, messengers and chats
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 …
Mass surveillance to protect children? Opposition to new EU private messaging upload filter plans
The EU Commission wants to legalise the mass screening and surveillance of all private electronic communications in search of possible ‘child pornography’, which is currently only practised by some US services …
Data protection supervisor to assess legality of blanket analysis of private communications in search for illegal content
Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party), Member of the European Parliament, has filed a complaint with the data protection authority of Schleswig-Holstein against the practise of large US corporations such as Facebook (Facebook …
Child protection through scanning of private messages? Investigation instead of monitoring!
The European Parliament today debated a draft legislation by the EU Commission that would allow the screening without suspicion of all private electronic communication via messenger or e-mail to search …
Protect children without spying on citizens! Patrick Breyer warns against EU proposal on filtering of all private online communications
The EU Commission is proposing to screen and monitor all private electronic communications without suspicion in order to search for possible child pornographic content. Today it presented draft legislation to …
Effective child protection instead of indiscriminate interception: Patrick Breyer warns about the EU Commission‘s communications censorship plans
The EU Commission wants all private electronic communications to be screened for possible child pornography, in the absence of any suspicion. This week it intends to present draft legislation that …
