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Did you read the whole thing? and a more detailed examination of common perceptual hashing algorithms (skip to table 3 for the collision probabilities): https:
by anigbrowl 2y ago
Did you read the whole thing?
and a more detailed examination of common perceptual hashing algorithms (skip to table 3 for the collision probabilities): https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2904/81.pdf https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2904/81.pdf
And there was a whole lot of explanation of how probable cause works and how it's different from programmers' aspirations to perfection.
- maronato 2y agoThe table only proves the point. The lowest probability in the table is 1 in 100_000. Most others are 1 in 100. 28 billion photos are uploaded every week to Google Photos[1]. That’s at least 280k false positives per week. Should we really be performing 30 search warrants on innocent people per second? [1] https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-changes/ https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-changes/
- anigbrowl 2y agoDo you have any evidence that this is happening? You don't think someone would have noticed by now if it were? And as I pointed out, we're not talking about a search warrant on a person, we're talking about whether it's necessary to get a search warrant to look at a picture to determine if it's an illegal image.