A new EU Commission regulation is to limit the protection of communication content. For example, a corresponding protection mechanism must under no circumstances prevent the automatic recognition of child pornographic content.
Communication contents should be automatically checked
The EU Commission considers a regulation on the automatic checking of communication content to be urgently necessary. The reason for this is the fact that such action would violate the right to confidential communication from the end of the year. After all, the e-privacy directive means that in future communication media such as e-mail and messenger services will also fall within the scope of protection. In particular, the effective automated filter systems used for pedocriminal material would then be blocked. This should not happen under any circumstances.
Protection by EECC from 20 December 2020
The main reason for the European Commission’s action is the new European Electronic Communications Code...
