Way back in 2021, Apple announced plans to carry out CSAM scanning on devices in what it intended to be a privacy-respecting way. However, experts quickly pointed out four potential flaws in Apple’s ...

For ex-MEP and privacy activist Patrick Breyer, who joined the October mobilisation against ‘chat control’ and was also a shadow rapporteur for the CSAM file during Parliament’s mandate negotiations, ...

The EU seems to be reversing course on previously proposed legislation that would force tech companies to scan and remove CSAM. The new language is much softer.

Apple CSAM scanning plans may have been abandoned, but that hasn’t ended the controversy. An Australian regulator has accused the Cupertino company of turning a blind eye to the sexual exploitation of ...

EU governments have finally agreed on a controversial new law that gives a backdoor to reading text messages and viewing ...

The European Union has formally presented its proposal to move from a situation in which some tech platforms voluntarily scan for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to something more systematic — ...

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Apple on Friday confirmed it has delayed controversial plans to start scanning user photos for child sexual abuse material, aka CSAM. The feature was originally scheduled to roll out later this year.

Apple seems to have stepped back on its least popular innovation since the Butterfly Keyboard, deleting mentions of its CSAM scanning/surveillance tech from its site following universal criticism.

Respected university researchers are sounding the alarm bells over the technology behind Apple's plans to scan iPhone users' photo libraries for CSAM, or child sexual abuse material, calling the ...

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 ...

Android users are less likely to make the switch to Apple with the launch of the "iPhone 13," a survey claims, with the move away from Touch ID and Apple's CSAM controversy apparently among the top ...