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Online hosting, messaging providers could have to detect child abuse images, grooming under draft EU law

Providers of online hosting and messaging services could be required by national courts to monitor for child sexual abuse material and grooming of children by predators under draft rules to be published by the European Commission tomorrow.
According to a leaked draft of the proposal, first published today by Politico

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Nicholas Wallace

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Nicholas Wallace has covered data privacy and security for MLex in Brussels since November 2021. Prior to joining MLex, he worked as a freelance reporter for Science Magazine, Science|Business, and International News Services, an agency serving trade publications worldwide. He holds a masters degree in public policy, jointly awarded by the Central European University in Budapest and the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, and a bachelors degree in politics from Liverpool John Moores University.

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