Charity fears 46,000 daily reports of child-sex abuse material will be missed

The ISPCC warns that new privacy rules could prevent online giants from using software that automatically detects child-abuse material.

A children's charity is alarmed by stuttering efforts at EU level to resolve a row over privacy laws that risks preventing internet firms from automatically detecting child-abuse material.

The ISPCC said that if these software tools were made illegal that an estimated 46,000 reports of child sexual-abuse imagery and grooming behaviour per day could be missed.