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Big Tech platforms lose legal EU right to screen for child abuse next week, lawmaker warns

By Matthew Newman ( December 17, 2020, 18:33 GMT | Insight) -- Web platforms such as Facebook’s Messenger and WhatsApp or Microsoft's Skype won’t get an exemption from EU e-privacy rules to allow them to continue screening for child-abuse images after it becomes illegal for them next week, after lawmakers failed to come to an agreement today on the draft legislation on such a waiver.Web platforms won’t get an exemption from EU e-privacy rules to allow them to continue screening for child-abuse images after it becomes illegal for them next week, after lawmakers failed to come to an agreement today on the draft legislation on such a waiver....

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