A total of 27 countries around the world in 2020 more than 1 million Receive a child abuse report. While these incidents of harassment are physically prevented, unfortunately, child abuse on the Internet keeps increasing† With the pandemic 67% It is becoming increasingly difficult to prevent these ‘online harassment’ incidents, which are becoming more and more frequent.

To end these increasing cases of harassment, the European Union Commission has asked Google and Meta to find and remove content and conversations involving harassment and child pornography. The annual income of companies that do not remove this content will take 6% EU officials stated that everything had to be done for this to happen. Google and Meta’s officials are against this situation. they are concerned expressed.

End-to-end encryption is a thing of the past!

This system, which is included in the bill published today, replaces the system previously called ‘Voluntary Search and Report’. Under this system, Google and Meta will detect and block child abuse and pornographic content if necessary, ignoring user privacy. In the published bill “The proposed rules require the detection and removal of high-risk content (child molestation and pornography) found on the systems of online service providers.‘ was included.

WhatsApp, the sub-company of Meta, which is affected by the system, has announced that it will waive this decision. Will Carthcart, executive director of the popular messaging app, said in a tweet: “It’s really disappointing that EU regulations ignore end-to-end encryption.†

A spokesperson for Meta said:We plan to encrypt users’ messages and information end-to-end while also imposing these sanctions. end-to-end encryption, including children It protects the information of billions of people.He explained that the necessary steps will be taken.

In order for the draft law to become law, EU countries must support this decision and work together must be issued.