Is Privacy Killer the solution to Child Sexual Abuse?

In the context of the Global Encryption Day 2023, we are pleased to invite you to attend to a debate on the following topic:

Is Privacy Killer the solution to Child Sexual Abuse?

Child Sexual Abuse Material is not the most spread threat on the Internet, but for victims, it’s a tragedy that we need to address.

We’ll start by exposing projects of some governments to address this: we will highlight amateurism, inefficiency and contra-productive effects of proposed measures, consisting of enabling governments to access to any private content exchanged on the Internet, after authorization given by justice.

This wiretapping of the Internet would rapidly become a “Privacy Killer” threatening everyone, and would even enable expansion of criminal activities over the Internet. We will illustrate how, followed by some paths on how to really address Sexual and Chile Abuse.

Detailed draft agenda

Date/Hour: Thursday October 19th 2023, from 7pm CET DST onwards (5pm UTC)
Location : Carpe Diem, Brussels

1- Welcome : how are you? what’s your interest today?

2- Set the scene – presentation:
– The first age of addressing sexual and child abuse through the Internet
– How Internet is different from other media (postal services, classical telephony, radio…)
– Internet wiretapping: the dramatic impact on citizens, justice, governments and legitimate businesses
– How Internet wiretapping is helping criminals

3- Questions and Answers and Debate

4- Short break : drink service

5- Second presentation: how to REALLY address issues in the modern world?
– How to fight sexual and child abuse without endangering everyone’s personal safety? Alternatives.
– The different functions of encryption and end-to-end encryption
– Justice in the Digital World: from investigations to legal actions
– Spot on European eIDAS Regulation proposal, and the impact AI (Artificial Intelligence)
– Conclusion: we need MORE encryption

6- Second Debate – what do to next?
7- Thanks – Drink & food + get in touch

Date/Hour: Thursday October 19th 2023, from 7pm CET DST onwards (5pm UTC)
Location : Carpe Diem, Brussels

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