Apple urged to drop plans to scan iMessages, images for sex abuse (Al Jazeera)

August 19, 2021

The largest campaign to date over an encryption issue at a single company was organised by the US-based Center for Democracy and Technology [File: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg]

The largest campaign to date over an encryption issue at a single company was organised by the US-based Center for Democracy and Technology [File: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg]

More than 90 policy and rights groups around the world have published an open letter urging Apple to abandon plans for scanning children’s messages for nudity and the phones of adults for images of child sex abuse. “Though these capabilities are intended to protect children and to reduce the spread of child sexual abuse material, we are concerned that they will be used to censor protected speech, threaten the privacy and security of people around the world, and have disastrous consequences for many children,” the groups wrote in the letter, according to a Reuters news agency report on Thursday.

Apple urged to drop plans to scan iMessages, images for sex abuse | Child Rights News | Al Jazeera

Marco Emanuele

Marco Emanuele è appassionato di cultura della complessità, cultura della tecnologia e relazioni internazionali. Approfondisce il pensiero di Hannah Arendt, Edgar Morin, Raimon Panikkar. Marco ha insegnato Evoluzione della Democrazia e Totalitarismi, è l’editor di The Global Eye e scrive per The Science of Where Magazine. Marco Emanuele is passionate about complexity culture, technology culture and international relations. He delves into the thought of Hannah Arendt, Edgar Morin, Raimon Panikkar. He has taught Evolution of Democracy and Totalitarianisms. Marco is editor of The Global Eye and writes for The Science of Where Magazine.

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