An EU plan under which all WhatsApp, iMessage and Snapchat accounts could be screened for child abuse content has hit a significant obstacle after internal legal advice said it would probably be annulled by the courts for breaching users' rights.Under the proposed chat controls regulation, any encrypted service provider could be forced to survey billions of messages, videos and photos for identifiers of certain types of content where it was suspected a service was being used to disseminate harmful material.
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