Steam

Scans under US law · no EU evidence

Steam Chat · owned by Valve

What we watch for — Steam discloses scanning under US law. We watch for the first sign of the EU regime: a derogation filing, an EU-specific scanning clause in these documents, or its name appearing in the Commission's next implementation report.

Services: Steam Chat
Status: Scans under US law · no EU evidence
Held since: 26 Jul 2026
Documents: 3 tracked
App Store label: Tracked
Changes recorded: 1 — latest 10 Aug 2026

Tracked documents

Document	Last fetched	Size	Hash	Snapshot
Privacy Policy store.steampowered.com	10 Aug 2026	30,938 chars	b66c078e7a70	text · raw · wayback
Online Conduct store.steampowered.com	26 Jul 2026	4,076 chars	69eba89094e5	text · raw · wayback
Google Play Data Safety play.google.com	26 Jul 2026	1,983 chars	44f192d64dd9	text · raw · wayback

text is the extracted record we hash and diff; raw is the page's original HTML kept verbatim as evidence — it renders without its styling here, by design.

App Store privacy label — Steam Mobile

Apple requires every app to declare the data it collects. This is Steam's current declaration, as shown on the App Store; ScanRecords records when it changes.

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What we searched for

A status that rests on absence is only as good as the search behind it. Every one of Steam's 3 archived documents (37,000 characters) was searched for the same published vocabulary used on every company here — in English, German and French. The search is a plain function of the archived text and re-runs whenever that text changes, so it always describes the documents listed above. Re-run it against this archive yourself with tools/scan-terms.mjs.

Not one term matched anywhere in these documents. Whatever this company does or does not do, its own tracked documents do not discuss scanning at all.

Found nowhere in these documents: Regulation 2021/1232 · derogation / Ausnahmeregelung / dérogation · Chat Control / Chatkontrolle · ePrivacy · CSAM / CSAE · child sexual abuse / Kindesmissbrauch · NCMEC / CyberTipline · PhotoDNA · hash matching / hash database · Internet Watch Foundation · scan / scanning / gescannt · automated detection / automatisierte Erkennung · classifier / machine learning detection · monitor content / review content

Record RSS ↗

10 Aug 2026 Steam — Privacy Policy document +3 −5
26 Jul 2026 Steam — Google Play Data Safety baseline first recording
26 Jul 2026 Steam — Online Conduct baseline first recording
26 Jul 2026 Steam — App Store privacy label baseline first recording
26 Jul 2026 Steam — Privacy Policy baseline first recording