I’m pretty sure that there’s extant debate in the European Commission which disagrees with this approach more generally.

EDRi writes:

> the Belgian government has proposed a new supposed ‘solution’ to the Chat Control (Child Sexual Abuse Regulation) deadlock in the Council. Providers of private communications services must ask people to consent to faulty AI-based scanning of their private chats, they suggest – or be banned from sharing images, videos and URLs!

https://edri.org/our-work/be-scanned-or-get-banned/