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How can it be a match if these CSAM scanners are only comparing against a database of known material? Have we been lied to?
by anilakar 4y ago
How can it be a match if these CSAM scanners are only comparing against a database of known material? Have we been lied to?
- bonzini 4y agoThe article says it's a combination of hash matching, AI and human review.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agothats equivalent to not saying anything
- Normille 4y agoI raised this point a while back in another discussion and was assured this kind of thing couldn't happen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32178108#32178137 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32178108#32178137 The biggest worry about these kind of situations is not that mistakes are made, but that it's almost impossible to make contact with a real human being to put things right [even, as in this case, when press and police are involved]. It's only a matter of time before someone loses their livelihood or even their life over this kind of cock-up.
- notch656a 4y agoIt's also easy to lose your livelihood or even life if you fail to eject something from your company's possession after you have reason to believe it contains certain materials of abuse. Federal and state prosecutor opinions differ, so clearance from local or state LEO (as done here) basically means dick. If you're wrong, then you get thrown in prison where you hear stories of "chomos" getting raped and shanked. If google is right, maybe they get a little bit of advertisement money. Imagine if this father did something later and the prosecutor uses this happening as evidence that this content was 'knowingly' harbored by the company. Seems like a bad calculus to me, just cut the guy loose whether he is innocent or not. You don't have the same rights to private service as you do rights in public.
- detaro 4y agoJust because some systems only do such comparisons (e.g. what Apple had in their iPhone-scanning proposal) doesn't mean all of them work that way.