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CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material)

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EU Tech Commissioner meets French ministers over Shein 'sex doll'

French ministers urge the European Commission to sanction e-commerce giant Shein for allowing illegal items to be sold on its website including a 'childlike sex doll' that sparked a national scandal.

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Germany’s no halts EU plan to combat child sexual abuse content online

The European Commission proposed the measures in 2022, but member states cannot reach an agreement, citing privacy and cybersecurity concerns.

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Fact check: Is the EU about to start scanning your text messages?

Viral posts are fuelling panic that the EU will soon scan text messages. But the concerns are premature with the proposal still being debated and the measures likely to change before anything is enforced.

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UK former referee charged with making indecent image of a child

The charge of making an indecent photograph also includes downloading, sharing or saving the offensive material, police clarified.

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Time is running out for EU Member States to decide on Chat Control

With just a few days left before the Council is due to take a vote on the controversial proposal, both the public pressure and cross-party outcry may pose a unique challenge to Brussels' usual choreographed votes on long-debated legislation.

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Euroviews. Return of chat control: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

The Scandinavian state has been a stalwart supporter of image scanning and chat control to detect child sex abuse material. Now, they hold the keys to make it a reality, Yaël Ossowski writes.

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German prosecutors widen probe in Hamburg child suicide network case

Hamburg prosecutors are investigating a 20-year-old man accused of driving children to suicide through an online network. He faces 123 charges, including murder and rape.

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Tech giants can easily check age of child users, says Danish minister

Online platforms are facing increasing pressure to implement the tools to protect children from harmful content online.

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Mistral AI models '60 times' more likely to give child grooming tips

Two of Mistral’s multimodal AI models gave "detailed suggestions for ways to create a script to convince a minor to meet in person for sexual activities".

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Tech companies urge EU to preserve voluntary detection of child abuse content in online platforms

Tech industry groups have rallied behind the Polish presidency’s proposal to extend the current framework for voluntary detection of child sexual abuse imagery online while safeguarding encrypted communication.

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Bluesky partners with charity to curb online child sexual abuse

The social media platform will have access to a new range of tools to detect harmful material.

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App store age check could help children online protection: Meta VP

Meta’s VP and Head of Global Safety, Antigone Davis, revealed the tech giant’s latest efforts to protect minors online. In an exclusive interview, she discussed everything from countering child abuse online to age verification while calling on harmonised EU digital rules.

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1 in 12 children globally exposed to online sexual abuse content

This figure points to "the need for increased legislation and primary prevention efforts to keep children safe," the researchers wrote in the study.

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EU ministers agree on criminalising online child abuse, but concerns over consent remain

A text addressing the criminalisation of online child sexual abuse is set to enter trilogue negotiations, despite concerns from several member states regarding the lack of ambition in defining consent and the qualification of rape.

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Meta offers EU Commission online teen protection proposal

The call comes as several of the incoming Commissioners have named child safety online a top priority.

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Revealed: parents’ biggest fears about what children do online

On the UN Day for preventing child sexual exploitation, exclusive data shows the scale of parents’ concerns over explicit content and online predators – as activists say lawmakers are dragging their feet.