Brand safety isn’t always cut and dried. An alcohol brand, for instance, might look for content that other brands would instinctively steer clear of. But some media doesn’t leave room for nuance. On ...

Australia has fined X (formerly Twitter) for failing to answer all its questions about child exploitation. The country's government levied a penalty of AUD 610,500 (around $387,000) for the Elon ...

For years, hashing technology has made it possible for platforms to automatically detect known child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) to stop kids from being retraumatized online. However, rapidly ...

Two major developments reignited regulatory and technological discourse around Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) this year: The first, Visa & MasterCard cracking down on adult sites that contained ...

A legal opinion on a controversial European Union legislative plan set out last May, when the Commission proposed countering child sexual abuse online by applying obligations on platforms to scan for ...

In August 2021, Apple announced a plan to scan photos that users stored in iCloud for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The tool was meant to be privacy-preserving and allow the company to flag ...

Lora Kolodny writes at CNBC: West Virginia’s attorney general has filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Apple, alleging that it has failed to prevent child sexual abuse materials from being ...

Big news on the privacy front: An EU bill that would threaten online privacy in the name of child protection is unlikely to pass in its proposed form. Back in May last year, the European Commission ...

European Union officials have delayed talks over proposed legislation that could lead to messaging services having to scan photos and links to detect possible child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Were ...

Three companies are working on a project to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM) before it reaches encrypted environments as part of a government challenge claim that pre-encryption scans for ...