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Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Snapchat are launching a counteroffensive to impose chat control on European citizens. (mastodon.social)
submitted 3 weeks ago by privacypride@mastodon.social to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Snapchat are launching a counteroffensive to impose chat control on European citizens.

"Today, with the expiration of the ePrivacy exemption that allowed the use of technology to detect child sexual abuse, Europe risks leaving children around the world less protected from the most abhorrent forms of abuse."

https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/around-the-globe/google-europe/reaffirming-commitment-to-child-safety/

cc @echo_pbreyer

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[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

As if there was ever any doubt. It's always been tech behind this.