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An EU law that requires machine-readable moderation data from companies.
are traced through a mix of digital media forensics—detecting visual artifacts, metadata anomalies and missing camera or encoder signals—and platform investigative tools and legal processes that deman...
, , and multiple watchdogs have opened inquiries or taken action after reports that ’s Grok produced sexualized images of adults and imagery that watchdogs say appears to depict children, potentially ...
The directive widely reported as an “order to keep all Grok data” was issued by the European Commission under the EU’s Digital Services Act and directed at X, instructing the platform to preserve inte...
Laws across the European Union, United Kingdom and the United States converge on the principle that child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is illegal and must be removed or reported, but they differ sharp...
Major platforms publish high‑level metrics about and enforcement — such as counts of reports to NCMEC, account suspensions, and broad categories of removals — but they generally do not publish reliabl...
’s law‑enforcement guidance explicitly allows preservation of user data following a CyberTip report and permits one 90‑day extension upon formal request, after which data may be deleted if no legal pr...
Accessing lists of active shops and their mirrors exposes researchers to a cluster of legal risks: criminal liability for interacting with stolen-payment-data ecosystems, civil exposure for copyright ...
People who are merely exposed to child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on Instagram are not automatically criminally liable simply for seeing it, but exposure can lead to real legal and investigatory con...
When automated systems on platforms flag suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM), the public record shows a patchwork of safeguards rather than a single, robust due-process regime: federal law cr...