The platform co-founded the Robust Open Online Safety Tools Model Community with Google, OpenAI, and Discord in 2025 ...

Despite making changes last fall to help block adults from messaging unknown children, Roblox is still failing to stop adults ...

Your private message may remain encrypted and unreadable to the platform carrying it, or be scanned by automated tools before reaching its recipient. This divide sits at the heart of the EU’s Chat ...

EU countries have extended temporary rules allowing platforms to detect child sexual abuse material online voluntarily until 2028. Lawmakers' biggest battle is the permanent "chat control" law that ...

Chat Control is 'treating everyone as a suspect', says expert Simeon de Brouwer, policy adviser at digital rights organisation EDRi, calls for "proportionality" to avoid "mass surveillance" and ...

The platform says users 13 and older instead mostly use party voice chat. The platform says users 13 and older instead mostly use party voice chat. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The European Parliament has approved an extension of rules that allow ...

The Chat Control 1.0 law has been extended through at least 2028, allowing scanning of email and direct messages on platforms including Discord, and Skype. Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) ...

The EU Parliament passed Chat Control 1.0 into law Thursday afternoon without a majority of its members ever voting for it. Of the 607 MEPs who cast a vote in Strasbourg, 314 voted to reject the ...

Companies will once again be allowed to scan citizens’ personal texts, emails, and social media messages via the “Chat Control” bill to find child abuse material online. The European Parliament has ...

EU lawmakers have again allowed tech firms to scan chats for abuse material, but exempted end-to-end encrypted messages. The European Parliament has passed legislation allowing tech firms to scan ...