> "We did not set out to praise Apple’s proposal, but we ended up concluding that it was probably about the best that could be done. Even so, it did not come cl

> "We did not set out to praise Apple’s proposal, but we ended up concluding that it was probably about the best that could be done. Even so, it did not come close to providing a system that a rational person might consider trustworthy." I think there needs to be more pressure on the EU to stop this law. Especially considering that they are already talking about expanding it to other stuff according to the linked article. Terrorism is supposed to be already on the roadmap to be next. After that? Fraud? Tax evasion? Pirated media? The databases for the latter are already there since social media are already required to block them. I think they should just accept that they can't always intercept everything and use targeted police work to make up for it. It also won't stop the worst offenders: Those making the actual content. Because at that point the material is not yet in any detection database as it's new. By the time the material is in those, the abuse is (sadly) already long done. So it's not a particularly effective way of preventing abuse either. It will help to stop the consumers of this stuff, but as the war on drugs has shown, that's not an effective method as it only raises the price and thus the profits for the criminals. What would work for that would be some machine learning algorithm that evaluates any content while you're shooting it on your phone and phones the police so they can come running. And for it to be forbidden to ever have your phone offline in order to circumvent this. That would probably be effective. It would also eliminate any semblance of privacy.