{"id":1210682,"date":"2023-09-13T09:36:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T09:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpj.org\/?p=314714"},"modified":"2023-09-13T09:36:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T09:36:42","slug":"cpj-joins-statement-urging-eu-states-to-reject-mass-surveillance-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/09\/13\/cpj-joins-statement-urging-eu-states-to-reject-mass-surveillance-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"CPJ joins statement urging EU states to reject mass surveillance proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Committee to Protect Journalists joined more than 80 other digital and human rights groups in a joint statement on Wednesday, September 13, 2023, urging European Union countries to reject the bloc\u2019s draft Child Sexual Abuse Regulation as it could violate hundreds of millions of people\u2019s privacy rights.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal could force companies to scan everyone\u2019s private digital communications, on behalf of governments, all the time. Tech companies would be able to break end-to-end encryption, jeopardizing journalists\u2019 ability to protect their sources and violating the right to confidential communications.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full statement to the EU\u2018s 27 member states below.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about press freedom in the European Union in CPJ&#8217;s special report \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/reports\/2023\/04\/fragile-progress-the-struggle-for-press-freedom-in-the-european-union\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fragile Progress<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><object class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Statement-to-EU-countries-Do-not-agree-to-mass-surveillance-proposal-warn-NGOs.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Statement-to-EU-countries-Do-not-agree-to-mass-surveillance-proposal-warn-NGOs.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-cc18933e-5bdb-4f09-8658-cd6cebe1650b\" href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Statement-to-EU-countries-Do-not-agree-to-mass-surveillance-proposal-warn-NGOs.pdf\">Statement-to-EU-countries-Do-not-agree-to-mass-surveillance-proposal-warn-NGOs<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Statement-to-EU-countries-Do-not-agree-to-mass-surveillance-proposal-warn-NGOs.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-cc18933e-5bdb-4f09-8658-cd6cebe1650b\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">\nThis content originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/2023\/09\/cpj-joins-statement-urging-eu-states-to-reject-mass-surveillance-proposal\/\" >Committee to Protect Journalists<\/a> and was authored by Committee to Protect Journalists.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Committee to Protect Journalists joined more than 80 other digital and human rights groups in a joint statement on Wednesday, September 13, 2023, urging European Union countries to reject the bloc\u2019s draft Child Sexual Abuse Regulation as it could violate hundreds of millions of people\u2019s privacy rights. The proposal could force companies to scan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5097,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7904,22127,30513,1322,732,48763,523,43416,1147,61008,42642,46164,27150,1630,1870,142,1,61403],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}