Criticism of the EU's ``chat regulation law'' that risks weakening the encryption of online services in the name of child sexual abuse prevention
On March 1, 2023 local time, the Digital Committee of
Deutscher Bundestag - Sachverständige üben breite Kritik an Plänen zur Chatkontrolle
https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2023/kw09-pa-digitales-928540
'There is no prosecution at any cost.'
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/germany-against-client-side-scanning-csam
In order to eliminate ``data related to child sexual exploitation (CSAM)'' existing online, the EU has proposed a ``chat regulation law'' that obliges providers of email and chat services to monitor the content of communication. . Many experts have criticized the chat regulation law as a bill to realize excessive surveillance of the general public in the name of preventing child sexual abuse.
Experts rush to criticize EU plan to seek ``scanning of encrypted private messages'' to prevent child sexual abuse-GIGAZINE
Online service providers will be required to scan all chat messages, emails, file uploads, in-game chats, video calls, etc. for CSAM when the Chat Regulation Act comes into effect. becomes. It has also been pointed out that this means that any message that is supposed to be encrypted will be monitored by the service provider, compromising the privacy of everyone living in the EU and undermining the level of online security. .
Criticism that ``the EU is trying to monitor the general public under the pretext of protecting children from sexual abuse''-GIGAZINE
The German government has taken a stand against the chat regulation law. In addition, on March 1, 2023, the Digital Committee of the German Bundestag held a public hearing on the chat regulation law to solicit opinions from experts. Among them, many participants pointed out that ``the chat regulation law is clearly excessive and undermines basic human rights that should be protected by EU law.''
Marcus Hartmann, senior prosecutor and head of the North Rhine-Westphalia Cyber Crime Center, who attended the hearing, argued that ``there can be no chat regulation law.'' Furthermore, as a cybersecurity expert, he warns that existing online security will be weakened if the chat regulation law is enacted. In addition, he also questions how to detect CSAM, pointing out that, for example, scan tools using AI have a high error rate and a false positive rate of about 10 to 20%.
Another participant, Martin Steinbach of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology, said the chat regulation was ``an intolerable invasion of privacy for millions of good EU citizens.'' Furthermore, he criticized that it was impossible to achieve in the first place, saying, ``How can such a large-scale surveillance system be managed on a daily basis due to the limited number of law enforcement agencies?''
“What we are facing is a blueprint for an unprecedented surveillance structure,” said Elina Eikstedt, spokeswoman for the Chaos Computer Club, a group set up to protect online security and privacy. Criticize the chat regulation law.
Even the kindergarten officials who participated in the public hearing showed their opposition to the enactment of the chat regulation law, highlighting that in Germany the sense of crisis regarding the chat regulation law is quite high.
Although the German Bundestag is not involved in enacting the chat regulation law, the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers are involved, so the German government cannot exert influence through the Council of Ministers. Is possible. At least the German government has clearly opposed the chat regulation law, and it seems that Ireland, Austria, and the Netherlands have shown similar positions.
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