Saxony’s Interior Minister Armin Schuster (CDU) has welcomed the European Parliament’s decision to pave the way for a temporary extension of the so-called “chat monitoring” program. The regulation will once again allow online platforms such as WhatsApp and Google to review private messages for indications of sexual violence against children under certain conditions.
Schuster: An Important Investigative Tool
“The EPP Group in the European Parliament has successfully rallied a stable majority to protect our children and reactivate a key investigative tool in the fight against child pornography and child abuse,” said Schuster.
According to him, chat monitoring is “an indispensable tool for our investigative authorities to receive early warnings of child abuse or child pornography from messaging service providers and to be able to intervene immediately.”
