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🎉🎉🎉 Ylva Johansson won the Big Brother Award 2022! 🎉🎉🎉
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Ylva was awarded the Big Brother Award at Bits of Freedom 2022.
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See the video recording at vimeo: https://vimeo.com/797366382
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Below is a transcript of the video.
+Some parts were difficult to transcribe because of the limited audio quality.
+The transcript is not official and the above video should be used as the canonical source.
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Thank you. Good evening everybody. And it is a bit weird - today is my birthday.
+This is the strangest birthday present I've ever had.
+It would be rude of me to reject a birthday present.
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+My proposal is about fighting child sexual abuse.
+At a scale and severity of a crime to demand that we act.
+Videos and pictures are shared online also with abuse of very young children and babies.
+And also with severe violence.
+One of the first things I did as a commissioner 3 years ago was launching a strategy against this terrible crime.
+Focussing on prevention, on victim support and of course on police cooperation.
+My proposal now on the table fights the online aspect of this crime.
+This is important not at least in the Netherlands where 40% of child sexual abuse material in the world is hosted.
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+Prevention is at the heart of my proposal, but prevention alone will never be enough unfortunately.
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+In a recent case the dutch police arrested a man.
+He has been raping his baby daughter.
+The police could stop these rapes, rescue this little girl and two other children, because the man got detected their views in facebook messenger.
+Prevention did not stop these rapes.
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+A baby cannot say no or call a hotline.
+My proposal does not introduce detection in online messages.
+Companies have been detecting child sexual abuse for more than 10 years in online messaging.
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+Last year they sent 1.5 million reports and reviews from the european union alone.
+Containing more than 5 million videos and photos of sexual violence against children.
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+One million of these reports, the majority, came from online messages, e-mail and chat.
+Every single one could contain the vital clue.
+The often only clue that could lead to an investigation that rescues the child.
+Next year, this detection for child sexual abuse in online messages will be forbidden.
+Totally in the EU.
+Unless there is a specific law that allows it.
+My proposal restricts detection compared to [Ursula von der Leyen?].
+But my proposal makes sure that it is not totally stopped.
+Allowing detection of the views to continue.
+Only when absolutely necessary.
+With new safeguards that are regulating big tech companies right now.
+Who, the big companies today detect, when they like, what they like and how they like (more or less).
+My proposal will limit the detection in time, in place and by law.
+The only offer for risk assessment. Only if there is a significant risk of child sexual abuse.
+Only of the prevention on mitigative measures that failed or was not enough.
+Only of through court decisions.
+Only with approved technology.
+Only based on verified indicators of child sexual abuse.
+Only then they will be allowed to do the detection.
+None of these safeguards exist today.
+That means we will have new safeguards compared with the current situation with my proposal.
+But there is one big difference.
+Today it is voluntary for the companies to detect.
+In my proposal this process will also be obligatory.
+When companies are allowed to detect, they also must detect.
+And if [???] it only detects the views.
+It is like a police dog at the airport.
+Sniffing for drugs offer high risk price.
+Officers open only suspicious packages when the dog barks.
+And like police dogs, artifical intelligence must always be subject to human oversight.
+And the new EU center I am proposing will be a stake for and filter reports.
+That no false positives reach the police.
+And I will not excempt encrypted services if there is a significant risk of child sexual abuse.
+Today, detection for malware is allowed and possible and carried out in encrypted environments.
+This is happening today.
+And I think that we must protect our children as least as much as we protect our devices from malware.
+I know you all feel very strongly about this.
+You also asked me to withdraw my proposal. I will not do that.
+Because if I should, then from next year, all detection in messages that has been happening for 10 years will be forbidden in the EU. Forbbiden in the Netherlands.
+Detection will stop. Rapes will continue undetected. And that little baby I told you about: Her father would probably still be raping her.
+And what about the crimes will say about the victims? That the victims, of that baby [???] Amsterdam, who confessed to abusing and raping 90 babies and small children.
+Eight years later, videos are still out there online.
+The worst moment of the child's life shared perpertual.
+Drama upon drama.
+The european union is a global leader in protecting online privacy.
+I am proud of that.
+We should all be proud of that.
+I also want us to become a global leader in protecting children.
+For one of the worst crimes that we can ever imagine.
+I'm proud of our new standards of privacy protection.
+But we must also protect the privacy of the victims.
+Thank you for listening.
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+With all due respect, we shall discuss the arguments put forth.
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40% of child abuse material is hosted in the Netherlands
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+A possible source for this claim might be
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+this EU news article
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+Internet Watch Foundation report from 2020.
+If we assume that these number are realistic:
+What is the reason why the Netherlands are such a popular target for this illegal material?
+And in which way would chatcontrol even help with this?
+If the source of illegal content is known it is easy to take it down,
+especially in a modern country like the Netherlands.
+There is no clear justification for the need of chatcontrol based on this.
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Prevention alone will never be enough to prevent all cases
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+Yes. But that still does not justify spying on pretty much any online conversation and
+treating all people who fulfill their human need for personal communication as potential offenders.
+The intention is good, but the means are completely overblown.
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We need chat and social media surveillance to rescue babies
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+By that same logic we could also argue for cameras in every room in every home,
+because sexual abuse of babies happens in the offline world and only in some cases is posted online.
+Only then we would achieve perfect prevention.
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Chatcontrol does not introduce (new) online surveillance
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+It is true that platform providers have been scanning for illegal content before the chatcontrol proposal was drafted.
+It is also understandable that platform providers do not wish to have this abhorrent type of data on their platforms.
+And it is reasonable that platform providers detect and delete this data.
+However, not all data is shared equally. Data can be shared broadly and in a non-personal manner.
+And if a platform provider learns that a certain URL points to illegal content, they can act on it.
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+Chatcontrol however, is a new type of surveillance, that is highly pervasive and that invades personal online spaces in a way that has not been seen to this extend before. The fact that facebook is scanning personal messages does not really say anything, because facebook has always been a terrible company when it comes to privacy.
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(to be continued)
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