Welcome to our European Union (EU) transparency page, where we publish EU specific information required by the Digital Services Act (DSA), the Audiovisual Media Service Directive (AVMSD), the Dutch Media Act (DMA), and the Terrorist Content Online Regulation (TCO). Please note that the most up-to-date version of these Transparency Reports can be found in the en-US locale.
Snap Group Limited has appointed Snap B.V. as its Legal Representative for purposes of the DSA. You can contact the representative at dsa-enquiries [at] snapchat.com for the DSA, at vsp-enquiries [at] snapchat.com for AVMSD and DMA, at tco-enquiries [at] snapchat.com for TCO, through our Support Site [here], or at:
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For DSA, we are regulated by the European Commission, and the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM). For AVMSD and the DMA, we are regulated by the Dutch Media Authority (CvdM). For TCO, we are regulated by the Netherlands Authority for the prevention of Online Terrorist Content and Child Sexual Abuse Material (ATKM).
Released: 30 January 2026
Last Updated: 30 January 2026
This report covers the period starting on 1 January 2025 and ending on 31 December 2025.
Background
The sexual exploitation of any member of our community, especially minors, is illegal, abhorrent, and prohibited by our Community Guidelines. Preventing, detecting, and eradicating Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA) on our platform is a top priority for Snap, and we continually evolve our capabilities to combat these and other crimes.
The technologies we use include (a) PhotoDNA robust hash-matching and Google’s Child Sexual Abuse Imagery (CSAI) Match to identify known illegal images and videos of CSEA, respectively; and (b) Google’s Content Safety API to identify novel, "never-before-hashed" CSEA imagery. We report CSEA imagery to the U.S. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), as required by law. NCMEC, in turn, coordinates with law enforcement in the U.S. and other countries, as needed.
Report
The chart below includes data about proactive detection and resulting enforcements against EU users for CSEA imagery during 2025. (Note: some enforcements resulting from proactive scanning in 2025 may still be subject to appeal as of when this report was compiled, and therefore would not be reflected in the appeals and reinstatements data below.)
EU Data
Totals
Total content identified as potential CSEA imagery through proactive scanning
189,057
Total enforcements for violation of Snap’s policies against CSEA
61,774
Total appealed
12,246
Total appeals reviewed
12,246
Total enforcements overturned following appeal
1,012
Rate of enforcements overturned following appeal (Total enforcements overturned / Total appeals reviewed)
8.26%
Detected CSEA retention period
730 days
1. This category reports enforcements for violations of Snap’s Community Guidelines prohibiting child sexual exploitation. Proactively detected content that is enforced for other violations of Snap’s Community Guidelines is not reported here.
2. An enforcement can be overturned if we determine it was erroneous based on our policies in effect at the time of enforcement, or if we determine it was correctly enforced originally, but our applicable policy has changed at the time of reviewing the appeal.
Content Moderation Safeguards
The safeguards applied for CSEA Media Scanning are set out in the above EU DSA Transparency Report.
본 보고서는 규정(EU) 2022/2065의 제34조 및 35조에 의거하여 Snap의 의무를 준수하기 위해 작성되었으며, Snapchat 온라인 플랫폼의 설계, 기능, 사용에서 비롯되는 시스템 위험에 대한 연간 평가 결과와, 그 위험을 평가하는 데 사용된 방법론, 그리고 그 위험에 대응하기 위해 마련한 완화 조치를 제시합니다.
본 보고서는 Snap이 유럽 연합의 규정 2022/2065 제37조에 따른 의무를 준수하기 위해 작성된 것으로, (i) 유럽 연합의 규정 2022/2065 제3장에 명시된 의무에 대한 Snap의 준수 여부를 독립적으로 감사한 결과 및 (ii) 해당 독립 감사에서 제시한 운영 권고 사항을 이행하기 위한 조치에 대한 내용이 기술되어 있습니다.
Snap은 AVMSD 제1조 (1)(aa)에 따른 "비디오 공유 플랫폼 서비스"('VSP') 제공자입니다. 본 실무 규약(이하 '규약')은 Snap이 네덜란드 미디어법('DMA') 및 유럽 연합의 지침 2010/13(유럽 연합의 지침 2018/1808('시청각 미디어 서비스 지침' 또는 'AVMSD')에 따라 개정) 아래의 VSP에 따른 의무를 준수하는 방법에 관해 설명하기 위해 작성되었습니다. 이 규약은 유럽 연합 및 유럽 경제 지역 전체에 적용됩니다.
EU VSP 실무 규약 | Snapchat | 2025년 3월(PDF)
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