2/3 The new #ChatControl proposal suggests that providers of private communications services must:

👀 ask people to consent to faulty AI-based scanning of their private chats, OR
❌BAN them from sharing images, videos & URLs!

Read more: https://edri.org/our-work/be-scanned-or-get-banned/

@edri @jens Literally every despotic law in a democracy has begun as "we must protect the children!"

Perhaps a new approach is needed if children are still at risk after decades of "won't someone think of the children!?" policy-making.

@edri
'Consent' always reminds me of the video 'It's simple as tea'.

It's a different context, but it gets to the heart of the matter.

https://tube-institutionnel.apps.education.fr/w/1986a019-6967-4ac6-a6f4-16f71a2ade71

2/5 🎉What are we celebrating:

✅ strong fundamental rights protections
✅ red lines on unacceptably risky AI systems like predictive policing, emotion recognition and biometric categorisation
✅ ban on ALL live facial recognition / biometric identification in public spaces