Big news on the privacy front: An EU bill that would threaten online privacy in the name of child protection is unlikely to pass in its proposed form.
Back in May last year, the European Commission proposed what security maven Matthew Green described as “the most terrifying thing I’ve ever seen”—a law that would force everyone from Facebook to Signal to scan everyone's messages not only for known child sexual abuse material (CSAM), but also for previously-unknown CSAM images, and also signs of someone apparently “grooming” a child for abuse. Other potentially privacy-threatening things were in there, like widespread mandatory age verification.
