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by fjfaase 1777 days ago
I understand that the EU is working on legislation that would make Apple's Child Safety plan manditory on all private communication platforms within the EU.
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I believe it has a good chance of failing on level of different EU states. Just try telling a general German citizen that their private communications must be monitored.
that's awful. do you have a source on this?
See https://european-pirateparty.eu/child-protection-through-sca....

> Not only searches for known pictures and videos are to be legalised, but also error-prone “artificial intelligence”, for example to automatically search text messages for “luring” of minors. If an algorithm reports a suspected message, message content and customer data could be automatically forwarded to law enforcement agencies and non-governmental organizations worldwide without human examination.

It will only take a few false-positive images shared on WhatsApp by everyone to take down that initiative.
How would that work on a Linux phone?
If you upload a file to email/a messenger service it would then scan the image.