IRELAND
irish Examiner
December 19, 2020
By Cormac O’Keeffe
The ISPCC warns that new privacy rules could prevent online giants from using software that automatically detects child-abuse material.
A children’s charity is alarmed by stuttering efforts at EU level to resolve a row over privacy laws that risks preventing internet firms from automatically detecting child-abuse material.
The ISPCC said that if these software tools were made illegal that an estimated 46,000 reports of child sexual-abuse imagery and grooming behaviour per day could be missed.
The threat is described as the unintended consequence of a broader attempt in the European Parliament to protect private online communications from being monitored by internet companies.
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