E.U Privacy Regulators already have enacted some of the world‘s strictest privacy laws, however a ruling scheduled to take place on December 20 2020 will decide whether or not digital services in the European Union will be able to monitor services such as email for signs of child exploitation.
Member of Germany’s Parliament Birgit Sippel argued that it is a slippery slope to allow restricted rights of privacy, even while the consequences of not monitoring will surely lead to an explosion of largely unchecked sex crimes against children.
The E.U is home to a startling 2.3 Million images discovered of sex crimes against children since this January to September alone.
proactive scanning is usually done by software services that use algorithms to scan for probable images of child pornography. Such software is used by companies like Facebook to proactively scan user’s content to identify criminals and victims alike.
Facebook has already said it would comply with regulations, meanwhile Julie Cordua CEO of Thorn software nonprofit is concerned about the domino effect globally that may give predators absolute confidence to continue committing these heinous crimes against children.