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Facebook stops child sexual-abuse scans after EU fails to agree on privacy rules exemption

By Matthew Newman ( December 22, 2020, 16:35 GMT | Insight) -- Facebook is no longer screening for child-abuse images and texts on its messaging services to comply with an EU privacy law, while Google, Microsoft and other tech companies have decided to continue the scans. Under the bloc's new telecom rules, Facebook-owned WhatsApp and other messaging services lost their legal standing to voluntarily conduct these scans. An EU regulation was meant to fill the legal gap created by the new rules, but the bloc's lawmakers failed to reach an agreement before a Dec. 21 deadline.Facebook is no longer screening for child-abuse images and texts on its messaging services to comply with an EU privacy law, while Google, Microsoft and other tech companies have decided to continue the scans....

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