Best case scenario would be, lots of children will be saved from abuse because the magic software somehow discovers that. I kind of doubt it though.
Best case scenario would be, lots of children will be saved from abuse because the magic software somehow discovers that. I kind of doubt it though.
No, you don’t get it. Hosting or possessing CSAM has criminal penalties even if no children were involved. For example AI generated imagery.
In fact, even if zero children are ever trafficked or abused going forward, and pedophiles only use old photos of children from 30 years ago, merely having these images is still an issue.
Conversely, the vast majority of sexual abuse of minors doesn’t involve images and goes unreported. "Considerable evidence exists to show that at least 20% of American women and 5% to 10% of American men experienced some form of sexual abuse as children" (Finkelhor, 1994). "Most sexual abuse is committed by men (90%) and by persons known to the child (70% to 90%), with family members constituting one-third to one-half of the perpetrators against girls and 10% to 20% of the perpetrators against boys" (Finkelhor, 1994).
In short - if they wanted to reduce child abuse, scanning everyone’s communications for CSAM would not be the most straightforward way to go about it.
"No, you don’t get it."
Did you get my last sentence?
"In short - if they wanted to reduce child abuse, scanning everyone’s communications for CSAM would not be the most straightforward way to go about it."
What would be the most straightforwand way? Install a camera in every home?
Yes, abuse is usually more to be found inside families. And the solution kind of complicated, involving social workers, phone numbers victims can call, safe houses for mothers with children to flee into, police officers with sensitive training who care, teachers who are not burned out to actually pay attention to troubled kids ...
How do they know it's unreported if it's unreported? They mean unreported to police but reported in scientific self-report surveys?
> if they wanted to reduce child abuse, scanning everyone’s communications for CSAM would not be the most straightforward way to go about it.
* First, this is not what politicians do. What they want is to look like they are fighting it.
* Second, what is your more straightforward way to fight CSAM? Asking for a backdoor is pretty straightforward, I find. I would rather say that fighting CSAM is more difficult than that.