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Leticia Batista Cabanas

Fact check: Is the EU about to start scanning your text messages?

Users online are sounding the alarm over a set of measures outlined in the European Commission’s proposal to combat child sexual abuse online. The measures, if approved, would allow governments and private messaging companies to scan users’ messages to prevent the circulation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and to help identify victims.

But a new wave of online content alleges that the European Union is about to start scanning all messages immediately, and sometimes before they have even been sent.

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