Jesper Lund1d ago
The Commission stands with Big Tech in an utterly wild letter that puts pressure on the democratically elected European Parliament to abandon their rights respecting vote on #ChatControl 1.0 just two weeks ago, and instead give Big Tech two-more-years of mass surveillance of our private communications without any safeguards.
Show threadEmelia 👸🏻

@je5perl I should email those people om that letter, because currently EU framework + country law does not support ESPs reporting CSAM, especially not smaller ESPs like Mastodon server admins.

When I directly asked the german authority responsible for protecting children about how to report CSAM as a small ESP, I was told "don't bother, delete it and pretend it didn't happen, because possession in Germany is strictly illegal even for reporting this content to law enforcement. If BKA contact you then comply, but otherwise don't proactively report abuse & illegal activity"

Chat Control as far as I know still doesn't provide ESP safe harbour, nor an EU wide reporting API/service for ESPs (ala NCMEC), nor the establishment of hash databases for known illegal content.

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Show threadEmelia 👸🏻13h ago
@je5perl that is to say: voluntary reporting today is broken as we lack the institutional infrastructure and legal safeguards to do it effectively; I've not seen anything in Chat Control that rectifies this situation, but now they want mandatory reporting & invasive scanning using AI/ML, and the reports go where? Not specified, as far as I know.