A lot of people talking about the EU's #ChatControl bill, and rightly so. There are 2 really important votes coming up.
As someone who has worked on it for 4 years (before the official proposal was even put forward) from a digital human rights perspective, here's a quick recap / informed source of what the heck is actually going on:
- The European Commission put forward a proposal in 2022 to mass scan public and private communications, using AI, in case of people sharing abuse material;
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Ella Jakubowska
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