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FB's move to e2e encryption explicitly discusses how they still will have reporting of content so users can report CSAM and send the plaintext back to FB. Your
by fossuser 5y ago
FB's move to e2e encryption explicitly discusses how they still will have reporting of content so users can report CSAM and send the plaintext back to FB.
Your framing of their motives here is both cynical and wrong.
Novel CSAM gets caught primarily because of users reporting it - not because of outside detection (with known stuff there are some digital fingerprinting ways to block content). They already operate WhatsApp which is e2e encryption and have to apply a lot of these strategies anyway.
Weirdly LinkedIn is apparently a hotbed for CSAM too and they also have people tasked with this. This problem is widespread: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28/us/child-sex-abuse.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28/us/child-sex-...
- ALittleLight 5y agoI don't think my framing is cynical (or wrong). Facebook has a clear incentive to reduce CSAM reports and end to end encryption will help by preventing automated systems, which do most of the detection, from detecting CSAM in messages. I don't think its Facebook's only motive for implementing end to end encryption, but I doubt they haven't considered it. It's good to give users the options to report such materials. As I mentioned though, the majority of CSAM detection is done by automated systems. I might guess that if two pedophiles are trading CSAM via Facebook messenger they will be both be unlikely to report the other.