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Heise reports the Council revived an expired rule letting messaging providers voluntarily scan for known child-abuse imagery, pushed as new legislation on an urgent second-reading track right before recess — where blocking needs a near-impossible absolute majority.

A commenter untangles it: the far more dangerous Chat Control 2.0, with mandatory scanning that would weaken end-to-end encryption, is not what's being voted here — and protest has arguably pushed 2.0 off the table for good.

U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers refused to throw out 29 states' claims that Meta engineered Facebook and Instagram to hook kids, and she granted the states summary judgment on Meta's failure to obtain parental consent under COPPA.

A 38-page ruling sends the addiction question to a jury, with trial on August 18. On HN the reaction runs from calls for case law to a skeptic who reads it as the government seeing dollar signs and blaming Meta for users' own choices.

A widely shared post claims Instagram is now inserting users' own photos into ads for Meta's smart glasses, with the caption 'the era of ultra personalized ads has begun.' The reaction on HN was less alarm than fatigue.

One reader dug up Facebook's 2013 terms granting exactly this permission, name, photo and content for sponsored use, with no compensation. As another put it: ten years ago this caused outrage; in 2026 nobody, including potential customers, seems to care.