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Thorn, the American NGO on the list also is itself a vendor of scanning software. https://netzpolitik.org/2023/chatkontrolle-lobbyist-thorn-mehr-startup-als-wo

• tephra 3y ago
  Microsoft also has financial incentives with their PhotoDNA software [0]. [0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/photodna https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/photodna
• _cenw 3y ago
  Isn't that just the perfect monopoly. Nobody is even allowed to work on anything similar unless they buddy up with NCMEC (hi Apple). Back when I made exceptionally bad (but not illegal) choices I publicly archived 3 supposedly worksafe 4chan boards. I found out pretty fast people still used CSAM to derail threads nearly daily. And that's when I found out that it's an impossible problem to solve for me; remedies are available if you're enterprise sized and a corporate entity, but for individuals running services the unofficial recommendation has always been "delete and pretend it never happened". That sucks, and hardly scales. PhotoDNA told me to ask again when I had a floor full of lawyers. I am to this day baffled the Fediverse hasn't died by the same mechanism. Either way, it's a disgusting way to limit who can operate services with UGC in practice. I at least decided against hosting the entire thing pretty soon and of course still had my entire hardware seized a year later. German police are slow, and they weren't interested in even talking to me or my lawyer.