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It's quite troubling, too, that the senator does not provide a baseline against which to assess the 70 million figure. How many of the pictures are duplicates o
by solidsnack9000 7y ago
It's quite troubling, too, that the senator does not provide a baseline against which to assess the 70 million figure. How many of the pictures are duplicates or substantially duplicates? What is the report actually counting? How does that translate to number of victims? How many more images does the senator believe that the EARN IT act will uncover?
The senator quoted the 70 million figure not to inform us, but to shock us and make us suspend judgement. It shouldn't be the norm for senators to respond without carefully sourced statistics, and it shouldn't be the norm for them to present a single statistic without a baseline or without something to compare it against, leaving it to our imagination, what the effect of their policies will be or what the scope of the issue is.
- mirimir 7y agoAlso, how many of those images are just sexting between consenting young people? I do recall reading about kids who have been prosecuted for sharing images of themselves. And then there are all the cam entrepreneurs.
- kyledrake 7y agoAs someone that's had to submit CP reports to NCMEC before (very rarely fortunately), I find that 70 million figure to be pretty strange and suspect. If you consider that Facebook has 2.45 billion active users, if it was one report per person it would represent 3% of Facebook's entire user base. I'm assuming there's some sort of automation in this, and perhaps a lot of duplicates (but MS PhotoDNA is supposed to catch this) or false reports. I wouldn't take that number at face value, it feels very off from my experience.
- craftinator 7y agoIt is a bit suspect, likely for the reasons you suggest. I can imagine that large caches of CP media does get transferred some portion of the time, which might be inflating the numbers.