EU watchdog questions secrecy around lawmakers’ encryption-breaking CSAM scanning proposal

The European Commission has again been urged to more fully disclose its dealings with private technology companies and other stakeholders, in relation to a controversial piece of tech policy that could see a law mandate the scanning of European Union citizens’ private messages in a bid to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
The issue is of note as concerns have been raised about lobbying by the tech industry influencing the Commission’s drafting of the controversial CSAM-scanning proposal. Some of the information withheld relates to correspondence between the EU and private firms that could be potential suppliers of CSAM-scanning …
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