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Kerstin Claus: Abuse officer calls on chat operators to carry out age checks

2022-06-13T11:12:03.383Z


Kerstin Claus demands that anyone who operates chat services for minors must ensure that no adults sneak in. In addition, it should be filtered which private data is uploaded.


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Kerstin Claus before the federal press conference

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The Federal Government's Abuse Commissioner sees operators of children's and youth chats as responsible for correctly checking the age of their users.

"The operators have to make sure that the child is really only 13 years old and not 43, so they have to ask for proof of the person's identification before anyone is allowed to chat there," Kerstin Claus told the newspapers of the Funke media group.

Claus said of the EU Commission's proposals that Internet companies could be obliged to screen the private messages of all their users for illegal depictions of abuse: "I think there must be a graduated procedure for chat control - how far, we are still in the process the discussion.

But one thing is clear: we have to protect children and young people better on the Internet.

The Internet is not a legal vacuum, so we need rules and boundaries there too, which are also taken for granted in the analogue world.«

The Commission's draft provides that a new "EU Center against Child Abuse" should be able to force online services to scan all communication from all their users for prohibited content.

This could also affect end-to-end encrypted messages that only the sender and recipient can actually read.

(Read more here.)

According to Claus, filters in chat services should “notice what private data children are uploading – such as a telephone number”.

»There are such technically supported restrictions on brokerage platforms for holiday homes, so that landlords and tenants cannot communicate without going through the broker.

If we use such algorithms for economic interests, we must do so all the more to protect our children from such private contacts.«

At the end of March, the cabinet appointed the journalist and political advisor Kerstin Claus as the »Independent Federal Government Commissioner for Questions Regarding Child Sexual Abuse«.

After more than ten years, she replaced Johannes-Wilhelm Rörig.

The office of commissioner was set up after cases of abuse at renowned educational institutions such as the Canisius College in Berlin and the Odenwald School in Hesse became public.

mak/dpa

Source: spiegel

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