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CDC: * About 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 13 boys in the United States experience child sexual abuse. * Someone known and trusted by the child or child’s family memb

by rendx 4y ago

CDC: * About 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 13 boys in the United States experience child sexual abuse. * Someone known and trusted by the child or child’s family members, perpetrates 91% of child sexual abuse. https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childsexualabuse/fastfact.html https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childsexualabuse/fast... WHO: "1 in 2 children aged 2-17 years suffered violence in the past year" https://www.who.int/health-topics/violence-against-children https://www.who.int/health-topics/violence-against-children It's a sad joke that child protection is the driving argument for surveillance. The actual numbers are _horrifying_, but almost nothing is done about it even in "developed countries". None of the organizations looking into actual violence against children is advocating for such measures. It is a completely fake and bullshit argument.

miohtama 4y ago
How about false positives > Indiscriminate messaging and chat control wrongfully incriminates hundreds of users every day. According the Swiss Federal Police, 80% of machine-reported content is not illegal, for example harmless holiday photos showing nude children playing at a beach. Similarly in Ireland only 20% of NCMEC reports received in 2020 were confirmed as actual “child abuse material”. All machine flagged reports must be checked by a human. Somebody will check your photos. https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/ https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/
- rendx 4y ago
  The point is that overwhelming majority of sexual abuse happens in families, and that online sharing of material is only a very small fraction of an overall "epidemic". If politicians were serious about addressing child abuse problems, they would follow the advice of child protection organizations including the CDC and WHO (and all the others). The only area where this comes up again and again is online surveillance.

by rendx 4y ago

miohtama 4y ago

How about false positives > Indiscriminate messaging and chat control wrongfully incriminates hundreds of users every day. According the Swiss Federal Police, 80% of machine-reported content is not illegal, for example harmless holiday photos showing nude children playing at a beach. Similarly in Ireland only 20% of NCMEC reports received in 2020 were confirmed as actual “child abuse material”. All machine flagged reports must be checked by a human. Somebody will check your photos. https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/ https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

rendx 4y ago
The point is that overwhelming majority of sexual abuse happens in families, and that online sharing of material is only a very small fraction of an overall "epidemic". If politicians were serious about addressing child abuse problems, they would follow the advice of child protection organizations including the CDC and WHO (and all the others). The only area where this comes up again and again is online surveillance.