The EU’s updated proposal on the Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse removes mandatory scanning of all user communications, shifting to a voluntary detection model for messaging platforms. Denmark’s revised text is being presented as a compromise that protects encryption, yet it introduces new identity-verification rules, broad risk-mitigation duties, and vague provisions that critics say could re-open the door to surveillance in the future. As negotiations accelerate toward year’s end, the debate now centres on whether the reform meaningfully protects rights or merely repackages previous risks in a different form.

The Blueprint provides a roadmap for building age-appropriate, transparent, and research-informed AI products, focusing on key areas such as age verification, parental engagement, and ongoing evaluation.