The Council of the European Union adopted its position on July 2, 2026, on a regulation to allow online service providers to resume voluntary detection and removal of child sexual abuse material on their platforms, seeking to reinstate an interim measure before a long-term legislative framework is finalized. The move follows the European Parliament's narrower approach limiting detection to already known images of abuse, while the fastest-growing threats involve new material, coercion, and evolving tactics like AI-generated abuse and online grooming, according to child-safety organizations. The Council position will be examined by the European Parliament under second reading, with EU countries required to adapt their national legislation within three years once the final regulation is adopted.
Detection that addresses both catalogued and first-generation material closes the operational gap the European debate has exposed. Guardii's anti-CSAM module identifies known hashes and previously unseen synthetic or coerced content in real time as it moves through direct-message channels on Instagram, Discord, Snapchat, Roblox and other platforms monitored by the system. The anti-grooming and anti-sextortion filters intercept the contact and coercion tactics that precede material creation, surfacing a child in crisis to a parent or professional and enabling rapid escalation to the right authority before abuse imagery is generated or exchanged, rather than relying solely on retrospective hash-matching of material already in circulation.
