CDT Europe Response to European Commission’s Consultation on the Proposal on Fighting Child Sexual Abuse

The Centre for Democracy and Technology’s Europe office (CDT Europe) has responded to the formal feedback request of the European Commission in relation to its CSAM proposal, adopted in the context of its initiative, ‘Fighting child sexual abuse: detection, removal and reporting of illegal content online’.

This feedback involves a review of the draft Regulation, which sets out the responsibilities of relevant online service providers, requires them to detect and report child sexual abuse online, to report that material to public authorities, and creates a European centre to prevent and counter child sexual abuse.

In its response, CDT Europe has focused on its core mission to strengthen individual rights and freedoms in the digital age. We emphasise the broad scope of the draft Regulation and the fundamental rights implications stemming from the inclusion of mass surveillance and filtering measures, in particular for the freedoms of opinion, expression and association, but also for end-to-end encryption.

Read CDT Europe’s response here.

Read CDT Europe’s longer analysis on the issue here.