FYI: Google lost EU legal cover to scan for child abuse images: EU ePrivacy derogation expires as Google, Meta pledge voluntary CSAM scanning despite documented false positives and unresolved legal questions in Europe. https://ppc.land/google-lost-eu-legal-cover-to-scan-for-child-abuse-images/ #ChildAbuse #CSAM #PrivacyRights #DigitalSafety #EURegulations
Google lost EU legal cover to scan for child abuse images

EU ePrivacy derogation expires as Google, Meta pledge voluntary CSAM scanning despite documented false positives and unresolved legal questions in Europe.

PPC Land
ICYMI: Google lost EU legal cover to scan for child abuse images: EU ePrivacy derogation expires as Google, Meta pledge voluntary CSAM scanning despite documented false positives and unresolved legal questions in Europe. https://ppc.land/google-lost-eu-legal-cover-to-scan-for-child-abuse-images/ #Google #EU #ChildSafety #Privacy #CSAM
Google lost EU legal cover to scan for child abuse images

EU ePrivacy derogation expires as Google, Meta pledge voluntary CSAM scanning despite documented false positives and unresolved legal questions in Europe.

PPC Land
Google lost EU legal cover to scan for child abuse images: EU ePrivacy derogation expires as Google, Meta pledge voluntary CSAM scanning despite documented false positives and unresolved legal questions in Europe. https://ppc.land/google-lost-eu-legal-cover-to-scan-for-child-abuse-images/ #Google #CSAM #ChildSafety #EUPrivacy #Meta
Google lost EU legal cover to scan for child abuse images

EU ePrivacy derogation expires as Google, Meta pledge voluntary CSAM scanning despite documented false positives and unresolved legal questions in Europe.

PPC Land

Elon Musk insists banks working on SpaceX IPO must buy Grok subscriptions:

Not just banks, but any firm working on the IPO… and they’re doing it!!?? Spreading the Mecha #Hitler/#CSAM disease. This’ll be fine. Everything’s fine. 🤨 #musk #spacex #aislop #grok #racism #idiocracy #crapitalism

Elon Musk insists banks working on SpaceX IPO must buy Grok subscriptions

Some banks "agreed to spend tens of millions on the chatbot," NYT reports.

Ars Technica
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Age Old Questions

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Techdirt
The #EU Killed Voluntary #CSAM Scanning. West Virginia Is Trying To Compel It. Both Cause Problems. - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/01/the-eu-killed-voluntary-csam-scanning-west-virginia-is-trying-to-compel-it-both-cause-problems/
The EU Killed Voluntary CSAM Scanning. West Virginia Is Trying To Compel It. Both Cause Problems.

Last week, the European Parliament voted to let a temporary exemption lapse that had allowed tech companies to scan their services for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) without running afoul of st…

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The EU Killed Voluntary CSAM Scanning. West Virginia Is Trying To Compel It. Both Cause Problems.

Last week, the European Parliament voted to let a temporary exemption lapse that had allowed tech companies to scan their services for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) without running afoul of st…

Techdirt

RE: https://mastodon.social/@adamndsmith/116328215860941572

#AI once again ruining lives...

*I'm positive that somewhere buried deep in the user agreement is a no fault masturbation clause absolving #Google of the #CSAM and #Voyeur implications AND somehow giving them the right to use said video to train #Gemini

I wish this was a joke...

🛑 CDT Europe welcomes last week’s European Parliament’s vote not to extend #ChatControl 1.0, which should serve as an important opportunity to reset the direction of the #CSAM trilogue negotiations.

👇🏻 Read our full statement: https://cdt.org/insights/cdt-europes-response-to-the-european-parliament-rejection-of-the-chat-control-1-0s-extension/

#Privacy #Surveillance

🛑 CDT Europe welcomes last week’s European Parliament’s vote not to extend #ChatControl 1.0, which should serve as an important opportunity to reset the direction of the #CSAM trilogue negotiations. 👇🏻 Read our full statement: #Privacy #Surveillance

CDT Europe’s Response to the E...