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How do you prevent photo's from your kids ending up in such a database? Perhaps you mailed grandma a photo of a nude two year old during bath time during a Covi
by Freak_NL 5y ago
How do you prevent photo's from your kids ending up in such a database? Perhaps you mailed grandma a photo of a nude two year old during bath time during a Covid lockdown — you know, normal parenting stuff. Grandma posted it on Facebook (accidentally, naively, doesn't matter) or someone gained access to it, and it ended up on a seedy image board that caters to that niche. A year later and it's part of the big black box database of hashes and ping, a flag lights up next to your name on Apple's dashboard and local law enforcement is notified.
I don't know how most people feel about this, but even a false positive would seem hazardous. Does that put you on some permanent watch list in the lowest tier? How can you even know? And besides, it's all automated.
We could of course massively shift society towards a no-photo/video policy for our kids (perhaps only kept on a non-internet connected camera and hard drive), and tell grandma to just deal with it (come back after the lockdown granny, if you survive). Some people do.
And don't think that normal family photos won't get classified as CEI. What is titillating for one is another's harmless family photo.