US apps send thousands of private photos to Swiss police
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Re: US apps send thousands of private photos to Swiss police
#2The article that this article links to says that the FBI has shared thousands of photos with Swiss Police.
Re: US apps send thousands of private photos to Swiss police
#3> In an effort to combat child pornography, providers like Facebook and Google automatically screen all photos for the presence of children and bare skin.
The presumption that childhood nudity needs to be screened in such a way is, itself, cringey and creepy and perhaps not without a hint of pedophilia.
> The algorithm detects the content whether it’s posted online or shared via a messaging app like WhatsApp.
OK, so what is "the algorithm?" Where can it be tested and audited?
And how do authorities acquire content send in a WhatsApp message? We just went over this yesterday, didn't we? wcathcart, any response to this?
Re: US apps send thousands of private photos to Swiss police
#4This article makes no sense.
Re: US apps send thousands of private photos to Swiss police
#5> In an effort to combat child pornography, providers like Facebook and Google automatically screen all photos for the presence of children and bare skin. The presumption that childhood nudity needs to be screened in such a way is, itself, cringey and creepy and perhaps not without a hint of pedophilia. > The algorithm detects the content whether it’s posted online or shared via a messaging app like WhatsApp. OK, so…
Our daughter had serious skin issues for years, and my wife and I shared numerous photographs of her.
The idea of a pack of ... auditing my personal messages and photos to my wife is abhorrent.
What we need is actual police doing actual police work, and actually judges putting actual pedophiles away for life. Not stalking normal people.
But, I guess cowardice is alive and well - normals don’t shoot cops and judges in the face, so they’re easy targets to satisfy the “just do something” vote.
Re: US apps send thousands of private photos to Swiss police
#6> In an effort to combat child pornography, providers like Facebook and Google automatically screen all photos for the presence of children and bare skin. The presumption that childhood nudity needs to be screened in such a way is, itself, cringey and creepy and perhaps not without a hint of pedophilia. > The algorithm detects the content whether it’s posted online or shared via a messaging app like WhatsApp. OK, so…
Our daughter had serious skin issues for years, and my wife and I shared numerous photographs of her. The idea of a pack of ... auditing my personal messages and photos to my wife is abhorrent. What we need is actual police doing actual police work, and actually judges putting actual pedophiles away for life. Not stalking normal people. But, I guess cowardice is alive and well - normals don’t shoot cops and judges in…
And i was a competative swimmer. Nobody should fault my parents for posting images of me in a speedo, nor should i hesitate from posting them myself.
Re: US apps send thousands of private photos to Swiss police
#7> In an effort to combat child pornography, providers like Facebook and Google automatically screen all photos for the presence of children and bare skin. The presumption that childhood nudity needs to be screened in such a way is, itself, cringey and creepy and perhaps not without a hint of pedophilia. > The algorithm detects the content whether it’s posted online or shared via a messaging app like WhatsApp. OK, so…
They are most likely talking about PhotoDNA (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA)
Re: US apps send thousands of private photos to Swiss police
#8> In an effort to combat child pornography, providers like Facebook and Google automatically screen all photos for the presence of children and bare skin. The presumption that childhood nudity needs to be screened in such a way is, itself, cringey and creepy and perhaps not without a hint of pedophilia. > The algorithm detects the content whether it’s posted online or shared via a messaging app like WhatsApp. OK, so…
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Re: US apps send thousands of private photos to Swiss police
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Our daughter had serious skin issues for years, and my wife and I shared numerous photographs of her. The idea of a pack of ... auditing my personal messages and photos to my wife is abhorrent. What we need is actual police doing actual police work, and actually judges putting actual pedophiles away for life. Not stalking normal people. But, I guess cowardice is alive and well - normals don’t shoot cops and judges in…
And i was a competative swimmer. Nobody should fault my parents for posting images of me in a speedo, nor should i hesitate from posting them myself.
They're not screening for kids and bare skin specifically. It's just a first heuristic to narrow down the pool of photos that conceivably might be child porn to something that human investigators can feasibly check.
Per the article, 90% of the kids-and-bare-skin photos received are found to be totally innocuous once a human looks at them; no action is taken, and the photos and associated personal info are removed from police computers.
Re: US apps send thousands of private photos to Swiss police
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
And i was a competative swimmer. Nobody should fault my parents for posting images of me in a speedo, nor should i hesitate from posting them myself.
They're not screening for kids and bare skin specifically. It's just a first heuristic to narrow down the pool of photos that conceivably might be child porn to something that human investigators can feasibly check. Per the article, 90% of the kids-and-bare-skin photos received are found to be totally innocuous once a human looks at them; no action is taken, and the photos and associated personal info are removed fro…
Except I'm not comfortable with my families photographs being screened by a third party that I don't know or have met, and this occurring explicitly without my knowledge.
So to stop child pornography an all-seeing third party vets my families photographs even when shared privately via WhatsApp or similar? That's fucked.