US EditionEU Fails to Extend Rules on Child Abuse Content Detection by Online Platforms
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The EU Council and the European Parliament failed to reach a compromise on Monday on extending measures that would allow tech companies to continue to search for child sexual abuse material in online chats on a voluntary basis. The European Commission warned that the measures expire on April 3 and called for continued dialogue.
Messenger services and online platforms will soon no longer be allowed to voluntarily review private communication in the EU for child pornography content. EU states and parliament have found no compromise.
The voluntary control of private communication on the Internet by online platforms in the fight against the representation of sexual child abuse will not be extended. Negotiators of the EU states and of the Parliament could not agree on a compromise, as a spokesperson of the Cypriot Presidency in Brussels announced.
Messenger services were allowed to voluntarily search chats to combat child abuse because of an exception, but an extension of the scheme has failed in the EU.
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