The European Parliament’s rapporteur on the regulation on the removal of online child sexual abuse material, Javier Zarzalejos (EPP, Spanish), sent his draft report to MEPs on Wednesday 19 April, in which he proposed adding “voluntary detection orders” for child sexual abuse material to hosts and content providers, using specific technologies that they can choose.
This voluntary ‘monitoring’ is in addition to the mandatory orders for the detection of child sexual abuse material,...