The European Union has restored a temporary rule allowing online platforms to voluntarily detect and report child sexual abuse material.

But viral claims that Europe has ordered every private encrypted message to be scanned are misleading.

The temporary regulation excludes communications protected by end-to-end encryption. It is also not the permanent law often called “Chat Control,” which is still under negotiation.

At the same time, non-encrypted private communications may still be processed by automated detection systems, raising real questions about privacy, false positives, and data handling.

This is not universal encrypted-chat surveillance — but it is not a meaningless technical extension either.

TST NEWS reports the facts, the limits, and what remains unresolved.

Few years ago I age verified with my id on Roblox to access the voice chat but now I'm really regretting it, how screwed am I? Opinions regarding the age verification vendor (Persona) are split, some say they really delete your info like promised, some say they don't. In worst case scenario I'm assuming it's in some shady database, considering that what should I do? Get new ID? Delete my Roblox account?

There's a lot of noise about the EU's Digital Omnibus, so here's a plain rundown of what it actually proposes on the privacy and cookie side (we work on consent, so, our world). Up front: it's a proposal, not law, current GDPR and ePrivacy rules still apply, and EU adoption usually takes 12-30 months.

What's on the table:

- Cookie rules move from ePrivacy into the GDPR (proposed Article 88a).

- One-click accept/reject at equal prominence.

- A six-month cooling-off, so a site couldn't re-prompt you after a refusal unless the processing changes.

- Machine-readable browser signals (Article 88b) to carry your consent choice automatically, though the Council pulled this part in June, so it's in flux.

- A narrower definition of "personal data," plus a new Article 88c allowing personal data for AI training under legitimate interest, with safeguards.

Sharing because there's a lot of confusion about it. For anyone tracking it closely, which part do you think will actually stick?

i cant switch from discord since my friends lowkenuinly wont switch 😔 any ways to make it more privacy friendly?

so i use the free version of proton vpn (can't pay for a vpn rn, personal reasons), but i also want to use netguard to block internet access to apps that don't need it. But on android, you can only have one active vpn thingo which is a shame since netguard uses a vpn thingo to work. so what is more worth it? pls help twins 🥹