According to the latest draft text of the controversial EU Child Sexual Abuse Regulation proposal leaked by the French news organisation Contexte, EU interior ministers want to exempt professional accounts of staff of intelligence agencies, police and military from the envisaged scanning of chats and messages (Article 1 (2a)). The regulation should also not apply to ‘confidential information’ such as professional secrets (Article 1 (2b)). The EU governments reject the idea that the new EU Child Protection Centre should support them in the prevention of child sexual abuse and develop best practices for prevention initiatives (Article 43(8)), writes Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer.
  • macniel@feddit.de
    20·
    15 days ago

    Hahahaha… No.

    You (potentially) voted for this. You will suffer it as well!

    Also all of my and everyones correspondence is confidental, now what? We in Germany have a law (Postgeheimnis) for that as well!

  • MrOtherGuy@lemmy.world
    19·
    15 days ago

    Absolutely not. If anything, public officials would be the one group whose messaging I would understand being scanned so that the people can sort of keep them on check. But again, implementing such possibility that would still weaken security of everyone else as well so of course it should not actually be done.

  • henfredemars@infosec.pub
    English
    10·
    15 days ago

    So the implication is that keeping the masses in check is the primary goal and protecting the children was the incidental part?

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
    5·
    15 days ago

    The law must apply to all, including public servants. As they are beholden to the public, they are subject to review and FOIA requests are automatically granted for the content.

    Remember the rule of authoritarians: if someone wants to stop you from being suspicious, they want to stop you from doing the same things they’ve done.