Smartphones, social media and secret chat apps helped fuel an unimaginable internet flood of sexually explicit images of children, with more than 60 million such photos, videos and files reported ...

Back in August, Apple announced a pair of new features meant to protect iPhone users from child predators and reduce the use of Apple’s technology and services to spread Child Sexual Abuse Material ...

Danny Mekić, an Amsterdam-based PhD researcher, was studying a proposed European law meant to combat child sexual abuse when he came across a rather odd discovery. All of a sudden, he started seeing ...

Britain's government is proposing legislation that would require WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Apple's Messages to adopt automatic scanning for child sexual abuse material. Also known in the UK as ...

Companies could police encrypted messaging services for possible child abuse while still preserving the privacy and security of the people who use them, government security and intelligence experts ...

A proposed European law that could require communications companies, including WhatsApp, Signal and Facebook Messenger, to scan the contents of private and encrypted messages for child abuse material ...

A plan unveiled last year for client-side scanning of iCloud Photos to detect imagery of abuse has been abandoned as Apple focuses on end-to-end encryption and other ways to protect children. A plan ...