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by rmvt 1777 days ago
that's awful. do you have a source on this?
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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.