European Parliament rejects extension of CSAM scanning rules for tech platforms

A batch of Europe and UK-focused security and policy stories: the European Parliament rejected extending mandated CSAM-scanning rules for tech platforms despite support from law enforcement and several commissioners, raising privacy and child-protection policy tensions; the UK is considering new limits on political donations amid warnings about hard-to-trace foreign interference campaigns; the FBI confirmed an Iran-linked group stole a director’s personal emails (described as historical and mitigated); a Dutch court threatened xAI’s Grok with daily fines over nonconsensual nude-image creation;