Proposed new privacy safeguard for planned powers to scan encrypted messages for child abuse images.
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The bill would let Ofcom force tech companies to use "accredited technology" to scan messages for child sex abuse material.Ministers, police and children's charities say the powers are necessary to tackle "record levels" of child abuse such as imagery and grooming on online platforms, and to prevent encrypted platforms allowing child abusers to "operate with impunity".
But campaigners said that as a minimum a judge should have to authorise the scanning of user messages. "Judicial oversight is a bare minimum for a government appointed body to be able to break encryption and access private messages" the free-speech campaigners said.
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