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There have been a couple of interesting stories recently. The first one is Jess Philips claim that the govt has developed technology to stop children sharing nude images of themselves.
Looking into it, the tech does exist and there is one smartphone called an HMD Fuse, that has it installed by default. Other phones do not have it installed as a default, but they could do, if the govt ordered them to do so. Jess Phillips argument is that the govt is too scared to tell the manufacturers to do this.
For any parents out there, this should be good news, because these self generated images are the most commonly shared form of iioc. Unfortunately you cannot just purchase the technology as an app, because it has to be built into the phones operating system, so it can not be added to existing phones. That is a big drawback.
Second is the Project Intercept campaign that has been run by LFF. Apparently, it has issued 70 million warnings for searching or trying to access iioc over the last two years.
Apart from highlighting the huge scale of the problem, what really caught my eye was the claim that it can deter people from having conversations with children online. However it not clear how it does this, because many chats are encrypted.
It would be interesting to know more about how this works, because in theory it could stop someone from talking to a police decoy at a very early stage, for example as soon as the decoy mentioned their age.
Looking into it, the tech does exist and there is one smartphone called an HMD Fuse, that has it installed by default. Other phones do not have it installed as a default, but they could do, if the govt ordered them to do so. Jess Phillips argument is that the govt is too scared to tell the manufacturers to do this.
For any parents out there, this should be good news, because these self generated images are the most commonly shared form of iioc. Unfortunately you cannot just purchase the technology as an app, because it has to be built into the phones operating system, so it can not be added to existing phones. That is a big drawback.
Second is the Project Intercept campaign that has been run by LFF. Apparently, it has issued 70 million warnings for searching or trying to access iioc over the last two years.
Apart from highlighting the huge scale of the problem, what really caught my eye was the claim that it can deter people from having conversations with children online. However it not clear how it does this, because many chats are encrypted.
It would be interesting to know more about how this works, because in theory it could stop someone from talking to a police decoy at a very early stage, for example as soon as the decoy mentioned their age.
How would a phone know a persons real age? The only downside in this is that it would prevent legally aged adults from swapping nudes if men and woman who are small for their age and look younger. It would also allow for underage people who look older to send nudes, its girls mainly of concern, that put on so much make up these days and always wanting to look older than they actually are.
I don't know how the software works, but you are correct that it does not know the age of the person. I guess you could link it to age verification software though and that would solve the problem.
Personnally, I do not see it as a downside if adults are unable to send nudes to each other as well. I have no idea why people feel the need to do that. But then I come from a generation that grew up without smartphones.
Personnally, I do not see it as a downside if adults are unable to send nudes to each other as well. I have no idea why people feel the need to do that. But then I come from a generation that grew up without smartphones.
70,000000 is a startling number :o. I don't understand what or who is being warned tho, and by whom? LFF won't have thousands of staff pressing buttons 24/7!?
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Our grooming warnings are deployed differently from our CSAM warnings and are not currently used within end-to-end encrypted environments. They are deployed by human moderators after grooming has been detected and reported to law enforcement.
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We wanted to contribute to this thread to provide more information about Project Intercept and our work.
Our grooming warnings are deployed differently from our CSAM warnings and are not currently used within end-to-end encrypted environments. They are deployed by human moderators after grooming has been detected and reported to law enforcement.
All warnings are deployed by our tech partners including Google, Meta, Mega and Aylo.
Please read more about the work in our report here.
Kind regards,
The Forum Team
Thanks for the reply LFF.
But it only raises more questions. If the warning is only issued after the person has been reported to police, how is that a deterrent?
The report itself only mentions the CSAM warnings, not the grooming warnings.
I see there is a free webinar on June 3rd though. Hopefully they can explain more about how the grooming warnings work.
But it only raises more questions. If the warning is only issued after the person has been reported to police, how is that a deterrent?
The report itself only mentions the CSAM warnings, not the grooming warnings.
I see there is a free webinar on June 3rd though. Hopefully they can explain more about how the grooming warnings work.
