UK dances to Vanceโ€™s tune

SNEAK PEEK โ€” Where does the Paris summit leave the U.K.โ€™s AI policy? โ€”ย MPs tackle the data bill, amendments and all. โ€”ย Patrick Vallance sets out his plan to remake science. Good morning and welcome to Wednesday, This is Tom, heading back to London from a gloomy City of Light. Come and say hi if youโ€™re [โ€ฆ]

The 9 AI power players at the Paris AI Action Summit

Academics can be as influential as tech bros in swaying policymakers to both invest in and set guardrails for the powerful technology.

Britain ditches AI declaration, pitches for cash

SNEAK PEEK โ€” As the AI Action Summit kicks off, the U.K. is tempted against signing its main declaration. โ€” Peter Kyle takes his investment pitch to Paris. โ€” Back at home, thereโ€™s a backlash against the Home Office over encryption. Good Monday morning, This is Tom in Paris. You can get in touch with [โ€ฆ]

The EU wants to scan every message sent in Europe. Will that really make us safer? | Apostolis Fotiadis

Lawmakers argue that mass surveillance will help to protect children. But the implications for our privacy and security are staggeringIn my 20 years of being a reporter, I have rarely come across anything that feels so important โ€“ and yet so widely unn…

What counts as sovereign in the cloud?

Exploring the legal and practical challenges and opportunities for both customers and providers

Musk โ€˜readyโ€™ to provide Meloni with Starlink secure comms

News of the talks comes shortly after the Italian PM visited President-elect Donald Trump in Florida.

EU interior ministers remain deadlocked on CSAM detection bill

The main concern among the bill’s opponents is that lawful but intimate images of adults will be mistakenly flagged as child abuse imagery and sent to the authorities.
The post EU interior ministers remain deadlocked on CSAM detection bill appeared fir…

Victors in the race for emerging tech will determine future

Collectively, emerging technologies are creating an unstable world, where we donโ€™t clearly understand what national security looks like.

Child sexual abuse material regulation still at stalemate, despite assurances for encryption

While some states have shifted their views, this will not be enough to counter opposition from France and Germany.

Bitcoin creator is Peter Todd, HBO film says

Documentary claims a Canadian developer is the real Satoshi Nakamoto.

Police can access mobile phone data for minor crimes, EU top court rules

A person in Austria sued the cops for seizing his phone after he received a parcel containing 85 grams of cannabis.

What the new EU leadership means for connectivity

From the Draghi report to Ursula von der Leyenโ€™s new College of Commissioners: the telecom sector is now a key ally in delivering on the promise of more competitiveness.

Tech policy: 20 people to meet at Tory conference

We break down the 20 figures shaping the Conservativesโ€™ tech policy in opposition.

Cops infiltrate โ€˜Ghostโ€™ encryption app used by drug lords, mafia

International bust is the latest win for law enforcement over criminals seeking to hide their tracks.

The bewildering politics of Telegram

Here are two big reasons the controversial app just became a global flashpoint.

โ€˜Russians do everything via Telegram.โ€™ Pavel Durovโ€™s arrest upends Kremlin military comms

Although Durov publicly distances himself from Moscow, his platform has become vital for Russian army coordination in Ukraine.

Telegram CEO reportedly arrested at French airport

Pavel Durov was taken into custody under a French arrest warrant as he got off his private jetย at Le Bourget airport, according to French media reports.

EU Commission looks to study DMA interoperability, with an eye to extending requirements to social media

The European Commission aims to study interoperability provisions in the EU’s digital competition regulation, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), according to a published tender.

Draft law to detect online child sexual abuse material stalled again

The draft law to detect and remove online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) was removed from the agenda of Thursday’s (20 June) meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER), who were supposed to vote on it.

EU cancels vote on child sexual abuse law amid encryption concerns

Countries clash over how to safeguard privacy when rooting out illegal pictures and grooming on private chat apps.

EU nears consensus on child abuse draft law, new agency takes lead on privacy preservation

A proposed centralised agency to support the detection and removal of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) will also be assessing how to technically preserve privacy while detecting such content in text communications included in the law’s scope, accordi…

Audio communications excluded in latest draft of child sexual abuse material law

A new compromise text of the draft law on online child sexual abuse material (CSAM), dated 28 May and seen by Euractiv, excludes audio communications from the scope and tries to strike a new balance between encryption and fighting CSAM.

Tech file on online child abuse material remains incomplete, risks grodlock

The draft law on detecting and reporting online child sexual abuse material (CSAM), sparking criticism and tension in the past, remains one of the important yet incomplete tech files of the EU, highlighting its significance as it risks being abandoned …

Nonconsensual AI porn is hated on the left and right. Can the US act on it?

Victims of nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes are lobbying Congress to pass a bill. Lawmakers are running out of time.

EU Parliament recruitment app compromised, encryption debate reignited

Welcome to Euractivโ€™s Tech Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU.

Europolโ€™s declaration against end-to-end encryption reignites debate, sparks privacy concerns

Europol’s recent joint declaration with European police chiefs urges action against end-to-end encryption, citing concerns of possible justice obstruction, amid an ongoing debate about balancing data privacy with combating crime.

Podchasov v. Russia: the European Court of Human Rights emphasizes the importance of encryption

  

 

Mattis van โ€™t Schip & Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius*

*Both authors work at the iHub and the Institute for
Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University, The Netherlands – mattis.vantschip[at]ru.nl & frederik…

Online child sexual abuse: New compromise stresses risk assessment, detection, reporting

A new compromise text by the Belgian Presidency of the European Council, seen by Euractiv, about the draft law to detect and remove online child sexual abuse material (CSAM), puts the focus on risk assessment, detection orders, and reporting.

Child sexual abuse: New approach puts focus on Coordinating Authorityโ€™s roles

A new approach by the Belgian Presidency of the EU Council to the draft law to detect and remove online child sexual abuse material puts focus on the Coordinating Authority’s roles, such as risk categorisation or detection orders.

โ€˜Giants that donโ€™t give a damnโ€™: X, Pornhub slammed for failure to fight online porn

Online platforms aren’t doing enough to block teens and children from seeing porn, a Belgian regulator said.

Britainโ€™s got some of Europeโ€™s toughest surveillance laws. Now it wants more

Despite the protestations of industry and campaigners, ministers are whisking a new bill through parliament.

Inside the police force scouring the internet to save abused children

Child sexual abuse material is proliferating online, leaving law enforcement fighting against the tide.

The great cryptophone hack: Drug gangs on trial in โ€˜historicโ€™ Belgian case

Belgian investigators take on cartels in cases hinging on hacked criminals’ chat logs.

Rishi Sunak loves Big Tech. Why does he keep scaring them away?

A surveillance reform speeding through parliament is just the latest UK government proposal that has tech companies worried.

UKโ€™s James Cleverly blasts Metaโ€™s encryption push

Home Secretary says he is โ€œincredibly disappointedโ€ Meta has not listened to ministersโ€™ concerns.

No more ads on Elonโ€™s X, EU Commission tells staff

Ads on Musk-owned social media site risk causing ‘reputational damage’ to the EU, its executive says in internal note.

Every bill in the Kingโ€™s Speech, reviewed and rated

POLITICO combs through Rishi Sunakโ€™s legislative agenda โ€” as read out by King Charles III โ€” so you donโ€™t have to.

EU Commissionโ€™s nameless experts behind its child sexual abuse law

The EU Ombudsman has found a case of maladministration in the European Commission’s refusal to provide the list of experts, which it first denied existing, with whom they worked together in drafting the regulation to detect and remove online child sexu…

EU Parliament nails down agreement on child sexual abuse regulation

The main political groups of the EU Parliament reached an agreement on the draft law to prevent the dissemination of online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on Tuesday (24 October).

Global Encryption Day 2023: Encryption Empowers Our Lives [Promoted content]

Global Encryption Day (21 October) spotlights the importance of end-to-end encryption in our digital lives. Encryption must be celebrated, not weakened, as could be the case through the European Commission’s proposal to combat online child sexual abuse.

EU Commissionโ€™s microtargeting to promote law on child abuse under scrutiny

The European Commission’s use of microtargeting techniques to promote its controversial law to prevent the dissemination of child sexual abuse material is under investigation over concerns it might have violated the EU data protection and privacy rules.

Online media oversight in debate and cyber-awareness month

Welcome to EURACTIVโ€™s Tech Brief, yourย weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletterย here.ย 

EU pushes for common ICT standards with China, Slovak elections test DSA enforcement on disinformation

Welcome to EURACTIVโ€™s Tech Brief, yourย weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletterย here.ย  โ€œEU companies told me they face many obstacles and legal uncertainties in China.โ€ – posted Vฤ›ra Jourovรก, Vice Preside…

UK dials up fight with Meta over encryption

New campaign comes as the United Kingdom finalizes rules that would allow it to monitor encrypted chats.

German MPs back potential Schrems III, EU Parliament wants to abolish extra fees for intra-EU calls

Welcome to EURACTIVโ€™s Tech Brief, yourย weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletterย here.ย 

UK government leaves out message scanning from Online Safety Bill

Following an eleventh-hour concession on the UKโ€™s Online Safety Bill, the British government decided not to scan messages for harmful content until it is โ€˜technically feasibleโ€™ without compromising usersโ€™ privacy. The initiative mirrors the EUโ€™s Digita…

Polish train chaos blamed on radio hackers

IT specialists say radio attacks point to long-standing weaknesses in rail networkโ€™s security.

Is Europe being sidelined in the quantum computing race?

As quantum-powered cyber-attack threats become more real by the day, liberal democracies and autocratic regimes are racing to develop quantum-safe encryption. But Europe risks being a spectator.

Poland slams child sexual abuse material regulation as unnecessary

The regulation to fight child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online is unnecessary as there are other regulations for safety on the internet, Paweล‚ Lewandowski, Polish undersecretary of state at the chancellery of the prime minister, told EURACTIV.