NCMEC’s database is smaller and infrequently updated, but Facebook’s database is much larger and more actively updated. This is also one of the reasons that Fac

NCMEC’s database is smaller and infrequently updated, but Facebook’s database is much larger and more actively updated. This is also one of the reasons that Facebook/Meta produces many more reports than other providers who use the NCMEC database. Governments view the limited reach of the NCMEC database as a problem, and are encouraging providers to use more complete databases and to develop tools to detect novel CSAM (this is included in the EU proposed regulations.) “Further scrutiny” here means your images are reported to a provider, which (at that point) means your provider has a list of reports that defeat the guarantees of E2E encryption. The threat model looks something like this: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-twitter-employee-found-guilty-acting-agent-foreign-government-and-unlawfully-sharing https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-twitter-employee-found...