Chat Control 1.0 became EU law despite more MEPs voting against it, thanks to a procedural threshold gap that critics call a back door.

The Chat Control 1.0 law that enables warrantless mass scanning of digital communications has been voted against multiple times by the EU Parliament. And yet, just like a movie zombie, it keeps ...

The EU’s proposed Chat Control (CSAM Regulation) aims to combat child sexual abuse material by requiring digital platforms to detect, report, and remove illegal content, including grooming behaviors.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A controversial proposal to scan encrypted chats threatens Europeans' privacy in a way that has never been seen before. At the ...

Chat Control 1.0 — a temporary derogation from ePrivacy rules designed to detect online child sexual abuse — was adopted by the European Parliament on Thursday ...

The European Commission is currently discussing the ' Child Sexual Abuse Regulation Proposal (Chat Control Proposal),' which would monitor the content of communications extensively, and was scheduled ...

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More than two dozen tech companies and trade associations have written an open letter to EU ministers calling on them to reject the proposed 'chat control' to maintain privacy. EU interior ministers ...

Kids' online safety is a big issue in the U.S. and elsewhere. As of now, legislators push laws that seemingly make children safer online, but may actually lead to identity theft (like with ...

Soon, the European Union is set to vote on the so-called Chat Control legislation. Under the pretext of protecting children from online predators, the privacy of millions of users could be undermined.

A loophole in parliamentary procedure allowed MEPs to extend mass scanning of private communications until 2026 — without a direct vote on the substance of the law ...