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Online platforms facing growing risk of legal gap on EU child abuse rules

By Júlia Tar ( March 11, 2026, 13:38 GMT | Insight) -- Online platforms are facing an increased risk of losing the EU legal basis to continue voluntarily detecting and reporting online child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, after plans to extend temporary rules were referred to a European Parliament committee for further consideration. Lawmakers had been warned that sending the plans back to the committee could jeopardize meeting the April 3 deadline to extend the temporary regime.Online platforms could face losing the EU legal basis to continue voluntarily detecting and reporting online child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, after lawmakers referred plans to extend temporary rules to a European Parliament committee for further consideration....

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