Germany Rejects EU’s Chat Control — A Battle of Privacy Versus Protection in the AI Landscape

Increasingly, governments are using AI to monitor online communications in a bid to increase security. However, this has attracted a slew of privacy concerns, and Germany has now drawn a line in the sand. In a provocative turn of events, the country has announced its opposition to the EU’s “Chat Control” proposal — a plan that would obligate tech giants like Google and Facebook to use AI software in scanning for potential child sexual abuse content.