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In the US, a service provider incurs legal obligations when it has actual knowledge that it is hosting something that appears to be CSAM. A provider hosting enc
by Zak 5y ago
In the US, a service provider incurs legal obligations when it has actual knowledge that it is hosting something that appears to be CSAM. A provider hosting encrypted data with no knowledge of what it decrypts to does not have such obligations.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2258A https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2258A
- judge2020 5y agoWhile that's the law, the big factor here is actual regulatory and agency pressure to scan for CSAM for the images they harbor, given they were previously only doing so when CSAM was manually reported to them by users (as in, probably, given they only submitted 265 reports to NCMEC in 2020[0]). Think "we regulate a second iOS app-store or you fix your CSAM problem". 0: https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-One-Bad-Apple.html#:~:text=In%20those%20same%20years%2C%20Apple%20submitted%20205%20and%20265%20reports%20(respectively) https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-On....