I går röstade Europaparlamentet – som vi rapporterat – för att elektroniska meddelanden och e-post skall avkrypteras och analyseras i jakt på övergrepp mot barn. Här kommer en del reaktioner och information.
Till att börja med röstade de tre svenska miljöpartisterna mot sin grupplinje – och gav alltså sitt stöd till förslaget. Det börjar bli ett mönster att MP:s ledamöter överger partiets tidigare linje för medborgarnas rätt till privatliv.
Europaparlamentets vice talman Marcel Kolaja (PP, CZ) är kritisk:
»According to Kolaja, it is necessary to protect children, but mass surveillance through private messages scanning is not the proper solution, saying it could affect many citizens. The adopted derogation is “a big blow to our digital privacy,” Kolaja said.«
EDRi kommenterar:
»Diego Naranjo, head of policy at European Digital Rights (EDRi), told EURACTIV the proposal was “rushed”, and failed to strike a balance between the right to privacy and the need to protect children online because “the discussion was instead shifted from rational to emotional arguments.”«
Ur samma artikel:
»Alexander Hanff, a former victim of child abuse (…) openly criticised the provision, arguing it will deprive victims of channels for confidential counselling. “It will not prevent children from being abused, it will simply drive the abuse further underground, make it more and more difficult to discover it. It will ultimately lead to more children being abused,” Hanff said.«
MEP Patrick Breyer (PP, DE) kommenterar:
»The adoption of the first ever EU regulation on mass surveillance is a sad day for all those who rely on free and confidential communications and advice, including abuse victims and press sources. The regulation deals a death blow to the confidentiality of digital correspondence. It is a general breach of the dam to permit indiscriminate surveillance of private spaces by corporations – by this totalitarian logic, our post, our smartphones or our bedrooms could also be generally monitored. Unleashing such denunciation machines on us is ineffective, illegal and irresponsible.
Indiscriminate searches will not protect children and even endanger them by exposing their private photos to unknown persons, and by criminalising children themselves. Already overburdened investigators are kept busy with having to sort out thousands of criminally irrelevant messages. The victims of such a terrible crime as child sexual abuse deserve measures that prevent abuse in the first place. The right approach would be, for example, to intensify undercover investigations into child porn rings and reduce of the years-long processing backlogs in searches and evaluations of seized data.«
MEP Sophie in ‘t Veld (LIB, NL) säger:
»Whenever we asked critical questions about the legislative proposals, immediately the suggestion was created that I wasn’t sufficiently committed to fighting child sexual abuse.«
Detta är som vi tidigare noterat en tillfälliga regler. Nu gäller det att vara uppmärksam vad gäller nästa steg, som blir en mer permanent lagstiftning – som kan komma att bli mer omfattande och omfatta fler syften.
Länkar:
• EP vice-president slams ePrivacy derogation »
• New EU law allows screening of online messages to detect child abuse »
• EU Parliament lets companies look for child abuse on their platforms, with reservations »
• MEP Patrick Breyer »
• #ChatControl – idag klubbas EU:s övervakning av elektronisk kommunikation »