Tech world may face huge fines if it doesn’t scrub CSAM from encrypted chats

Tech companies could be fined $25 million (£18 million) – or ten percent of their global annual revenue – if they don’t build suitable mechanisms to scan for child sex abuse material (CSAM) in end-to-end encrypted messages and an amended UK law is passed. The proposed update to the Online Safety bill [PDF], currently working its way through Parliament, states that British and foreign providers of a “regulated user-to-user service”

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