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There's no logic in it as the article misstates the acural legislation and intention. Read the linked documents and its pretty obvious (I left a longer comment

There's no logic in it as the article misstates the acural legislation and intention. Read the linked documents and its pretty obvious (I left a longer comment below).

jmull 6y ago
From your linked document: > The Commission announced that it will propose the necessary legislation to tackle child sexual abuse online effectively including by requiring relevant online services providers to detect known child sexual abuse material and oblige them to report that material to public authorities by the second quarter of 2021. The announced legislation will be intended to replace this Regulation, by putting in place mandatory measures to detect and report child sexual abuse, in order to bring more clarity and certainty to the work of both law enforcement and relevant actors in the private sector to tackle online abuse, while ensuring respect of the fundamental rights of the users, including in particular the right to freedom of expression and opinion, protection of personal data and privacy, and providing for mechanisms to ensure accountability and transparency. If the measures to detect certain kinds of content are "required" and "mandatory", that rules out end-to-end encryption. Sure, they promise to use their powers to snoop only for good. Perhaps this commission means it, too. Just not sure why it would only be used for good, though. I see multiple posts in this thread that seem to have the same generous reading of this that you have. But I don't see where that is coming from. They seem to be clearly calling for regulations that will not for allow end-to-end encryption.
- estaseuropano 6y ago
  Not to rehash other discussions in this comment area, but there are many ways to do more than what is currently done. As you quote they want any changes to preserve privacy which means certainly no end to E2E.

There's no logic in it as the article misstates the acural legislation and intention. Read the linked documents and its pretty obvious (I left a longer comment below).

jmull 6y ago

From your linked document: > The Commission announced that it will propose the necessary legislation to tackle child sexual abuse online effectively including by requiring relevant online services providers to detect known child sexual abuse material and oblige them to report that material to public authorities by the second quarter of 2021. The announced legislation will be intended to replace this Regulation, by putting in place mandatory measures to detect and report child sexual abuse, in order to bring more clarity and certainty to the work of both law enforcement and relevant actors in the private sector to tackle online abuse, while ensuring respect of the fundamental rights of the users, including in particular the right to freedom of expression and opinion, protection of personal data and privacy, and providing for mechanisms to ensure accountability and transparency. If the measures to detect certain kinds of content are "required" and "mandatory", that rules out end-to-end encryption. Sure, they promise to use their powers to snoop only for good. Perhaps this commission means it, too. Just not sure why it would only be used for good, though. I see multiple posts in this thread that seem to have the same generous reading of this that you have. But I don't see where that is coming from. They seem to be clearly calling for regulations that will not for allow end-to-end encryption.

estaseuropano 6y ago
Not to rehash other discussions in this comment area, but there are many ways to do more than what is currently done. As you quote they want any changes to preserve privacy which means certainly no end to E2E.