“All data is useful and should be passed on to law enforcement, there should be no filtering by the [EU] Centre because even an innocent image might contain information that could at some point be useful to law enforcement”
The CSAM scanning plan was sold as child protection. In a July 2022 meeting, Europol asked for every scanned result, false positives included, with no limits on use and detection expanded to other crimes. The Commission’s text now sends Europol every report that isn’t “manifestly unfounded” and gives it access to the Centre’s databases. Europol’s own Fundamental Rights Officer flagged biased results and false positives in its AI classifier and approved it anyway.