Alles voor de kinderen, maar doe dan wel het juiste - Bert Hubert's writings
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- The current EU CSAM proposal would create mass surveillance of all Europeans by US tech companies, scanning private WhatsApp photos and potentially reporting them to police, without effectively tackling child abuse.
- Child abuse investigations suffer from chronic backlogs and lack of resources; investing in more skilled detectives and better IT would be a more direct solution.
- Experts warn that the proposed scanner would generate a flood of false reports, overwhelming police, and drive abusers to unregulated platforms like Telegram.
- The proposal is driven by commercial interests and has been repeatedly rejected by the European Parliament, yet it keeps returning under the guise of protecting children.
- Alternative measures include adding warning buttons in chat apps, parental alerts, and targeting persistent hosts of illegal content rather than implementing widespread monitoring.
- Once implemented, the automatic scanner would be permanent and could be expanded beyond child protection, eroding privacy for all Europeans.