EU plan to force messaging apps to scan for CSAM risks millions of false positives, experts warn

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/02/eu-csam-scanning-council-proposal-flaws/

« Critics argue the proposal asks the technologically impossible and will not achieve the stated aim of protecting children from abuse. Instead, they say, it will wreak havoc on internet security and web users’ privacy by forcing platforms to deploy blanket surveillance of all their users in deploying risky, unproven technologies, such as client-side scanning.

Experts say there is no technology capable of achieving what the law demands without causing far more harm than good. Yet the EU is …

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