EU Commission proposes Interim Regulation on the processing of personal and other data for the purpose of combatting child abuse
The European Commission published a proposal for a measures that would provide temporary exemptions from certain ePrivacy Directive (Directive 2002/58/EC) provisions communications service providers for the processing of personal and other data for the purpose of combatting child sexual abuse online.
At the moment eprivacy Directive does not provide such exemptions for voluntary processing of data by telecommunication service providers.The proposal would allow communications providers to use technologies to detect, report and remove child sexual abuse material.
