{"id":22481,"date":"2026-03-26T15:37:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/brussels-opens-investigation-into-snapchat-amid-concern-over-childrens-safety\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:37:29","slug":"brussels-opens-investigation-into-snapchat-amid-concern-over-childrens-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/brussels-opens-investigation-into-snapchat-amid-concern-over-childrens-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels opens investigation into Snapchat amid concern over children\u2019s safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European Commission says social messaging app is exposing children to grooming and sexual exploitation<\/p>\n<p>Brussels has opened an investigation into Snapchat over concerns that the social messaging app is exposing children to grooming, sexual exploitation and other criminality.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate decision on Thursday, the European Commission also said four pornographic websites were failing to prevent minors seeing adult content.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/26\/brussels-opens-investigation-into-snapchat-amid-concern-over-childrens-safety\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/aa0e6da62cd7488b8611dc552fa9f1e72ecec8cf\/499_0_5018_4016\/master\/5018.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=23760cc515ba89ff24778a2405190bf8\" title=\"Brussels opens investigation into Snapchat amid concern over children\u2019s safety\" \/>European Commission says social messaging app is exposing children to grooming and sexual exploitation<br \/>\nBrussels has opened an investigation into Snapchat over concerns that the social messaging app is exposing children to grooming, sexual exploitation and other criminality.<br \/>\nIn a separate decision on Thursday, the European Commission also said four pornographic websites were failing to prevent minors seeing adult content. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Commission says social messaging app is exposing children to grooming and sexual exploitation Brussels has opened an investigation into Snapchat over concerns that the social messaging app is exposing children to grooming, sexual exploitation and other criminality. In a separate decision on Thursday, the European Commission also said four pornographic websites were failing to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/brussels-opens-investigation-into-snapchat-amid-concern-over-childrens-safety\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brussels opens investigation into Snapchat amid concern over children\u2019s safety<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22481"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}