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A legal opinion on a controversial European Union draft law, which has proposed countering child sexual abuse online by applying obligations on platforms to scan for illegal content and grooming, suggests it's incompatible with the bloc's fundamental rights.

Privacy advocates can breathe a sigh of relief, with the EU's internal legal review concluding the bloc's plans for message scanning are likely illegal.

Lawyers say proposed client-side scanning measures likely break the law in several areas

Under proposed ‘chat controls’ regulation, any encrypted service provider could be forced to screen for ‘identifiers’

The European Commission's initiative to make online content providers pay for network investment costs has managed to bring together two historical enemies, civil society groups and rightsholders.

Several Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have written to Salome Zurabishvili, the President of Georgia, asking her to pardon Nika Gvaramia, t

The approved EU MiCA regulation includes rules to trace crypto asset transfers and prevent their use in criminal activities.

Proposed EU legislation to tackle child sex abuse may end up making it more difficult to tackle the crime, warns a 140-page draft report.

European Union lawmakers are on track to ban the use of remote biometric surveillance for general law enforcement purposes. However that hasn't stopped parliamentarians in France voting to deploy AI to monitor public spaces for suspicious behavior during the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Predictive policing has exposed a new group of future criminals: MEPs.A new testing systems has spotlighted five EU politicians as