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EU should ban possession of AI child abuse imagery, UK’s Internet Watch Foundation says

( July 11, 2025, 00:03 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The Internet Watch Foundation — a UK-based hotline for detecting and removing online child sexual abuse material — is calling on EU lawmakers to urgently amend the draft of the Child Sexual Abuse Directive, to close a legal loophole that would allow the personal possession of AI-generated child sexual abuse material. The warning comes amid a 400-percent rise in confirmed cases and a rise in hyper-realistic synthetic videos, which experts say are now indistinguishable from real abuse footage. Inter-institutional negotiations on the directive are currently underway following the European Parliament’s backing of stricter measures in June.Press release follows....

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