It's a black-box, and unverifiable by design. With a false flag sufficing to ruin your life, I'd rather take no chances for a nebulously defined benefit. In th

It's a black-box, and unverifiable by design. With a false flag sufficing to ruin your life, I'd rather take no chances for a nebulously defined benefit. In the end all this does is mark those apps participating as unsafe for people who do, incredibly, feel safe now to post such images through a service like WhatsApp or IMessage (do these people even exist?). They'll use something else, and the people you do catch are just idiots and teenagers. And that false flag event is hardly far-fetched with the extremely broad definition CSAM has. I'm pretty sure that if a parent photographs their 13 year old daughter proudly posing in her new bikini on the beach, and sends it to grandma who naively posts it on Facebook, where someone downloads it for their personal sexual gratification, then posts it on some image hosting site for bragging rights, where it gets hoovered up for the great CSAM database because that site was filled with photos of scantily clad children, and now when the partner of the above parent asks them to send those photos they took of their daughter on the beach for the holiday photo-album they're making, and boom, they are on a list. Unlikely? With unaccountable processes and black-box databases things like this will happen, and that is excluding the likelihood of bugs happening (which is inevitable).