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Facebook, Google, Microsoft may soon have legal certainty over child-abuse images scans in EU

By Matthew Newman
  • 06 Jan 2021 12:49
  • 06 Jan 2021 12:49
Big Tech companies such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft may have more legal certainty on whether they can legally screen their messaging and email services for child-abuse images and texts as EU negotiators scramble to fill a legal gap that emerged with the bloc's new telecom rules last month.
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Matthew Newman

Chief Correspondent


Matthew Newman is a chief correspondent for MLex and writes about data protection, privacy, telecoms, cyber security and artificial intelligence. Matthew began his journalism career in 1991 in community newspapers. He worked as a reporter in Riga, Latvia in 1993 and then moved to Chicago where he covered local news. In 1995, he became a personal finance reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, and was then transferred to Brussels in 1999. He specialized in EU regulatory affairs, including trade and telecom issues. He began covering competition for Bloomberg News as an EU court reporter in 2004. In 2010, he was named spokesman for Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner. In January 2012, he helped launch the commission’s proposal to overall data protection rules.

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