4/5 馃毇 The Council's text also requires providers of many different online services to take steps to mitigate the risks posed by their platforms.
Sounds great in theory but providers could be forced to take measures which may create more harms such as forcing private messages (chats, emails etc.), app stores, and others deemed "risky" to use age verification or assessment tools. This can undermine hashtag#privacy and pose a major chilling effect on people's freedoms.
5/5 鉁婐煆網e will continue to call on our lawmakers to ensure that the final #CSARegulation protects children while being compatible with #FundamentalRights, protecting encrypted communications, and not forcing the widespread use of unreliable and data-hungry age verification tools.
馃 Want to know more about how we can move past #ChatControl to solutions that truly protect young people AND privacy? Read this op-ed by @edri's Head of Policy @ella for Tech Policy Press: https://www.techpolicy.press/moving-past-chat-control-to-solutions-that-truly-protect-kids-and-privacy/