Von der Leyen keeps her SMS correspondence with Pfizer management secret, but my correspondence with my girlfriend somehow has to become public record (via anti-encryption laws and the resulting data leaks).
Primary source: <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-platforms-child-sexual-abuse-reporting-law/" rel="nofollow">https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-platform...</a><p>Which is a lot more dry and clear than what has been posted. We could all seek to be more emotionally disengaged if we want to have actual debates.<p>One of the things stated, for example is that the bill will not stand up in a court of law; and MEPs were displeased at the “moral blackmail” of the bill: basically “you don’t want to protect children? You must hate children!”<p>EDIT: what’s with all the low effort euro-skepticism in this thread? Surely we can do better.
Meanwhile the former pope and his bishop protected known child abusers who continued to abuse children.<p>Aiding a criminal is itself a crime in Germany -- I would go for "Täterschaft durch Unterlassen"; without their enablement, no further abuse could have happened.<p>But the prosecutors seem to be to involved with the church <i>shrug</i><p>Instead of going for the known abusers the general population gets the STASI 3.x treatment.<p>Some days I wish the EU dissolves into irrelevancy. Barely more than a fishbowl full off awkward, self righteous bureaucrats.
Then again, the scavengers and populists are already waiting and are the guaranteed ticket to hell during lifetime.
I wonder if they will be applying a unified definition for child sexual abuse material, or if each service will be free to look for whatever the local jurisdiction deems as such. My country (Bulgaria) doesn't define it per se - all porn is illegal[1], but there is an additional punishment if it involves "a person under the age of 18, or appearing to be such".<p>The parts where our rules notably differ from (as far as I understand them) those of other EU nations are:<p>1. Transmitting any pornographic material is a crime. Possession is not criminalised (unless of persons under the age of 18, or appearing to be such).<p>2. Every clause includes the words "of a person", implying that drawings are not subject to them. I don't know enough law to say for sure.<p>3. The rules against child sexual abuse material specify "person under the age of 18, <i>or appearing to be such</i> ". The latter part seems to not be part of other nations' laws.<p>[1] <a href="https://lex.bg/bg/laws/ldoc/1589654529" rel="nofollow">https://lex.bg/bg/laws/ldoc/1589654529</a> чл. 159
Is this possibly the source of Apple's sudden need to "scan" user documents last year? The Europeans pressured them and they tried to get ahead of the game?