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Institution of the European Union representing the member states' governments bringing together national ministers from each EU country to adopt laws and coordinate policies
EU governments reached a political compromise on the so-called “Chat Control” (Child Sexual Abuse — CSA — regulation) on 26 November 2025, replacing a mandatory scanning requirement with language that...
Available reporting and fact‑checks show no credible evidence that any foreign country has formally imposed sanctions specifically targeting Donald Trump as an individual; claims that the EU, UK, Cana...
The current EU “Chat Control” debate centers on a regulation to prevent and combat child sexual abuse that would require providers to detect and act on CSAM and grooming-related material across many s...
The EU imposed a broadcasting ban on Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik in March 2022 as part of sanctions tied to the invasion of Ukraine, suspending their licences and prohibiting distribution across the...
Finland is a parliamentary republic in which executive power is exercised by a Government (cabinet) led by a Prime Minister, while legislative authority rests with a single‑chamber Parliament (Eduskun...
Several sources show the EU moved to ban RT and Sputnik from broadcasting across the bloc in March 2022 and that national regulators and platforms enforced or supplemented those measures; however repo...
The EU’s proposed Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (often called “Chat Control”) would give national authorities powers to force online providers to remove or block content and to impose penalty payments...
The legislative process for the EU’s so‑called “Chat Control” — formally the Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse (CSAR) — hit a sequence of decisive procedural dates in 2025 but the re...
ISPs use an array of network- and content-level techniques to detect and block child sexual abuse material (CSAM), most commonly URL and DNS blocklists, hash‑matching of known images/video fingerprint...
EU “Chat Control” refers to a proposed Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse (often called CSAR) that has repeatedly raised alarms because it would require platforms to detect CSAM and g...
The EU “Chat Control” debate has focused on whether platforms would have to scan private communications — including encrypted messages — and whether that scanning would apply to historical (already st...
Advances in hashing and AI have dramatically increased platforms’ ability to find and remove “known” CSAM at scale—industry tools processed billions of images and surfaced millions of matches in recen...
The primary legal mechanism used across the EU to block RT has been the application of EU-level sanctions that suspend broadcasting licences, transmission and distribution arrangements and prohibit pl...
A single, EU-wide taxation system and the effective end of tax havens inside and outside the bloc are politically desirable goals that the EU is actively pursuing through measures such as Pillar Two i...
Operators who create or manage CSAM honeypots face criminal exposure, civil liability, and regulatory sanctions tied to possession, distribution, and facilitation of child sexual abuse material as wel...
U.S. federal law requires interactive electronic service providers to report apparent CSAM to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) CyberTipline once they have actual knowledg...
The EU adopts sanctions through the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) using Council Decisions (CFSP) and binding Regulations that create asset freezes, travel bans and sectoral restrictions; U...
EU member states moved this month to a revised Child Sexual Abuse Regulation—widely nicknamed “Chat Control”—that removes a previous draft requirement for mandatory scanning of end-to-end encrypted me...
EU member states are rolling out the Entry/Exit System (EES) that records facial images and fingerprints for most non‑EU, visa‑exempt travellers; available reporting says travellers who refuse biometr...